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Excavations at sites known as the Silver
Glen complex have yielded examples of Tick
Island Incised pottery (above left), a rare type of
ceramic decorated with left-opening spirals that
may have been meant to evoke the spiral (above
right) of the lightning whelk shell
Hunter-gatherers thrived in Florida for more than eight millennia before they began to make pottery around 2600 b.c., during the Late Archaic period. This invention seems to have dramatically changed their daily and ritual lives.
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