Editing St. Simons, Georgia (section)

===Pre-European contact===
[[File:St Simons Park marker, St. Simons, GA, US.jpg|thumb|St. Simons Park marker]]
[[File:St. Simons Park, St. Simons, GA, US.jpg|thumb|St. Simons Park]]

Cannon's Point, on the north end of St. Simon's Island, is an archaeological site that includes a [[Archaic period (North America)|Late Archaic]] [[shell ring]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Russo|first=Michael|title=Archaic Shell Rings of the Southeast U. S.|url=http://www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/Archaic%20Shell%20Rings.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415124220/http://www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/Archaic%20Shell%20Rings.pdf|archive-date=April 15, 2012|publisher=National Park Service|pages=85–86|year=2006|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref> The Cannon's Point site has yielded evidence of occupation by Native Americans since at least as early as the appearance of [[Ceramics of indigenous peoples of the Americas#Southeastern Woodlands|ceramics]] in the southeastern United States. Milanich lists the succession of periods at Cannon's Point as: Sapelo Period (2500–1000 BC); ceramics related to those of the [[Stallings Island|Stallings culture]] of the [[Savannah River]] valley and [[Orange period]] of northern Florida; Refuge Period (1000–500 BC); [[Deptford culture|Deptford]] Periods (500 BC to AD 700); Wilmington Period (700–1000); St. Catherine's Period (1000–1250); Savannah Periods (1250–1540); Pine Harbor Period (1540–1625), where European artifacts appear in the archaeological record in this period; and Sutherland Bluff Period (1625–1680), where Native American occupation of Cannon's Point seems to have ended during this period.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Milanich|first=Jerald T.|author-link=Jerald T. Milanich|date=September 1997|title=A Chronology for the Aboriginal Cultures of Northern St. Simon's Island, Georgia|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00027829/00067/51j|journal=The Florida Anthropologist|volume=30|issue=3|pages=134–42|via=University of Florida Digital Collections}}</ref>

Many scholars in the early 20th century identified the people of St. Simons Island as [[Guale]]. Hann cites evidence that the people of St. Simons, at least as early as 1580, were part of the [[Mocama]] people.{{sfn|Hann|1996|pp=70, 176}} Ashley et al. suggest that St. Simons may have been occupied by the Guale people when Europeans arrived in southeastern Georgia in the 16th century and that the original Guale population on St. Simons was displaced from at least the southern part of the island after the [[Juanillo|Guale rebellion of 1597]], and replaced by Timucua speaking [[Mocama]] people.{{sfn|Ashley|Rolland|Thunen|2013|pp=397-400}}