Communal Feasts

Communal Feasts. . In addition to growing some foods, the Timucua fished and hunted. They also gathered edible items found in nature around them. Fish and other seafood, were their primary source of protein, and therefore incredibly important to their diet., The Timucua were skilled canoe builders, as canoes allowed them to gather more fish. Shellfish, like oysters, were easy to gather, and simple to cook., The Timucua hunted large game animals, like deer and alligators. Hunting was a dangerous task, but the animals yielded large amounts of meat, and valuable skins and pelts. Animal bones were likely used as tools and/or weapons, as were shells and parts of fish. Oyster shells and other food trash were stacked in the same mounds generation after generation. These "shell middens" are often found by archaeologists, and can be a valuable source of information about the people who left them.