The site’s dates cluster in what archaeologists classify as the Early to Middle Archaic period of Florida prehistory.

The Archaic period in the eastern United States generally refers to the time between the end of the Paleoindian period — the era of the first Americans, when people were hunting now-extinct megafauna — and the beginning of later cultural traditions characterized by ceramics, mound-building, and more complex social organization.

During the Early and Middle Archaic in Florida, the peninsula was drier and slightly cooler than today.

Sea level was substantially lower — perhaps fifteen or twenty feet below the present shoreline — meaning that what is now the shallow continental shelf east of Florida was dry land, and the coastline was considerably farther east.