The Tequesta were a native American tribe that lived in the southeastern part of Florida. Extending from modern day Miami dade county to Broward county. Even though they had small tribes all along the coast, their central town was located in today's Biscayne Bay point ( Miami Circle), it was called Tequesta after the chief that lived there. The Tequestas were hunters and gathers like their close neighbors the Calusa. Calusa was the biggest tribe in the south Florida area at that time. Many of the Tequestas ways came from them. The Tequestas lived in huts and clothing was minimal to them, men wearing a sort of loincloth, and the women using Spanish moss and fiber plant to make skirts. They did not practice any form of agriculture, they fished, hunted, and gathered plants as…show more content… The Neolithic was an age of change, one of its major invitations was grinding tools to make them sharper. Also, agriculture was in this era. In the finding at the Miami circle, we have found artifacts that indicated that the Tequesta Indians lived back in the Neolithic era, in artifact 6k which is a stone axe, I found that the axe was smoothen to make the edge pointer. Even though the Tequestas and other tribes in the south Florida area did not use agriculture as a source of food. They did adopt other tools from them. In my visit to the historic museum of south Florida I also noted that the Tequesta used the technique of sharpening arrows for hunting. Were we can also see that in artifact 7c a wood carving adze, that is a tool to sharpen tools. In conclusion, clearly we can see that the Tequesta were a tribe still adopting to these new tools and technique. And like many Native American tribes they do not like to diverted from tradition. We can see that the Tequesta lived in huts and still hunted and gathered for food. But we can also see how they used tools that are used in the New Stone
