Editing Manatee County, Florida (section)

=== Prehistoric history ===
The area now known as Manatee County had been inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years. Shell middens and other archaeological digs have been conducted throughout the county including at [[Terra Ceia, Florida|Terra Ceia]] and at [[Perico, Florida|Perico Island]]. These digs revealed materials belonging to peoples from the [[Woodland period]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Willey |first1=Gordon |title=Culture Sequence in the Manatee Region of West Florida |journal=American Antiquity |date=January 1948 |volume=13 |issue=3 |page=210 |doi=10.2307/275425 |jstor=275425 |s2cid=161791092 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/275425 |access-date=March 28, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bullen |first1=Ripley |title=Terra Ceia Site, Manatee County, Florida |journal=Florida Anthropological Society |date=1951 |pages=7–9 |url=https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00066144/00001 |access-date=March 28, 2022}}</ref>