A Stroll Through Venice

A Stroll Through Venice - Associated Content - associatedcontent.comAssociated Content HomeTravelHome »Travel A Stroll Through VeniceAdjust font-size:+ –Published May 20, 2006 by:Gary AndersonView Profile | Follow | Add to FavoritesMore:VeniceVenice FloridaSaltwater PlantsVenice BeachPolar Ice CapsA Stroll into Venice Florida's PastA short 10,000 years ago, Florida's land mass was twice as big as now. Its earliest inhabitants, like us their modern counterparts, built their communities along the coast. Melting polar ice caps left many of thoseA Stroll Through VeniceNeighborhood: Venice Beach
Venice, FL 34285
 societies under water, on what is now called the continental shelf. There, just off the coast, are the remnants of those sites as well as a old river bed filled with fossils and teaming with fish today. It's a secret spot on many a captains chart and will continue to be so until someone spills the beans. The earliest Floridians often made their communities along river banks. The rich variety of environments in prehistoric Florida supported a large number of plants and animals. The animal population included most mammals that we know today. In addition, many other large mammals that are now extinct (such as the saber-tooth tiger, mastodon, giant armadillo, and camel) roamed the land. During the period prior to contact with Europeans, native societies of the peninsula developed cultivated agriculture, traded with other groups in what is now the southeastern United States, and increased their social organization, reflected in large temple mounds and village complexes. Florida was settled long before Europeans had discovered the peninsula. Some estimates suggest that Native Americans had arrived in Florida as early as 10,000 years before the first Europeans.

European voyages of discovery began when Columbus discovered the islands of the "New World" in 1492. Spanish exploration of Florida began in 1513 with expeditions near present day St. Augustine, the Florida Keys and Tampa.

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