Such large numbers have implications about trade in the early archaic period.

For most of the Archaic period, people did not transform their natural environment in any fundamental way.

This was the period of time following the Archaic period.

It is difficult to determine when slave trading began in the archaic period.

Statues in the Archaic period were not all intended to represent specific individuals.

Settlement was from the Late Archaic period through about 1650.

However, there is abundant evidence of human use from the Archaic period onward.

The site may also have been occupied in the Late Archaic period.

During the middle to late Archaic period sea level rise slowed and approached contemporary levels.

The site is an area inhabited in the archaic period by the Calusa.