Suwannee Valley culture

[2] To the north, in southern Georgia, was an otherwise undefined culture area characterized by the Carter Complicated Stamped ceramic series.

[3] The Suwannee Valley ceramic assemblage has some elements from the adjacent Wakulla and Alachua cultures, but is distinct from both.

Later in the Suwannee Valley culture period, in the Island Pond phase, larger settlements, associated with burial mounds, developed.

This sub-site is essentially devoid of McKeithen Weeden Island and Leon Jeffereson ceramics, and of Spanish artifacts, and appears to have been occupied for some six centuries entirely within the Suwannee Valley period.

Nearly all Suwannee Valley sites also lack platform mounds characteristic of Mississippian cultures such as Fort Walton and St.

[12] In historical times, after contact with Europeans, the core area of the Suwannee Valley culture was occupied by the Timucua proper, now generally known as the Northern Utina.

[18] The political organization of the Timucua/Northern Utina and Yustaga people at the time of European contact, and for more than a century afterwards, was Mississippian as well.