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The Accokeek Creek Site: A Middle Atlantic Seaboard Culture Sequence
Robert L. Stephenson, Alice L. L. Ferguson and Henry G. Ferguson
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The Accokeek Creek site, in Prince George's County, Maryland, sits at the spot where the Piscataway Creek enters the Potomac, across the river from Mt. Vernon. The owner of the property, Alice Ferguson, excavated the site and wrote notes on her work, which became the basis for this volume. The site, which was also known as Moyaone, contained evidence for occupation from the Archaic to the historic period. Excavation revealed remains of a village, burials, and many classes of artifacts, including pottery, pipes, chipped stone tools, and items made from shell, antlers, and bone.
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Contents
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I. The Historical Setting / Alice L.L. Ferguson and Henry G. Ferguson
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Indians of the Tidewater Region
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Early Contacts 1608-1634
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Piscataways and their Neighbors 1634-1674
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Frontier Defense
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Destruction of the Susquehannocks 1674-1676
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Raids and Diplomacy 1676-1685
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The Last Years of the Piscataways
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Sources
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II. Present and Past Topography / Henry G. Ferguson
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The Peninsula
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The Site
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Changes in Topography
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Vegetation
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III. The Excavations and Field Work / Alice L.L. Ferguson
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Method of Excavating
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The Moyaone Area
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The Previllage Settlement
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Moyaone Village
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Burials
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Mockley Point and the Susquehannock Fort
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IV. The Artifacts / Robert L. Stephenson
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Methods of Analysis
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Steatite Vessels
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Pottery
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Pottery Tobacco Pipes
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Other Pottery Objects
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Projectile Points
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Other Chipped-stone Artifacts
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Ground and Polished-stone Artifacts
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Shell Artifacts
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Antler Artifacts
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Bone Artifacts
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Colonial Artifacts
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V. Cultural Reconstruction and Chronology
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Background
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Cultural Sequence at the Accokeek Creek Site
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The Archaic Period
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The Early Woodland Period
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The Middle Woodland Period
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The Late Woodland Period
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The Colonial Period
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VI. The Middle Atlantic Seaboard Culture Province
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References Cited
Citable Link
Published: 1963
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- 978-1-951519-47-6 (ebook)
- 978-1-949098-25-9 (paper)