The Accokeek Creek Site: A Middle Atlantic Seaboard Culture Sequence

Contents
I. The Historical Setting / Alice L.L. Ferguson and Henry G. Ferguson
	Indians of the Tidewater Region
	Early Contacts 1608-1634
	Piscataways and their Neighbors 1634-1674
	Frontier Defense
	Destruction of the Susquehannocks 1674-1676
	Raids and Diplomacy 1676-1685
	The Last Years of the Piscataways
	Sources
II. Present and Past Topography / Henry G. Ferguson
	The Peninsula
	The Site
	Changes in Topography
	Vegetation
III. The Excavations and Field Work / Alice L.L. Ferguson
	Method of Excavating
	The Moyaone Area
	The Previllage Settlement
	Moyaone Village
	Burials
	Mockley Point and the Susquehannock Fort
IV. The Artifacts / Robert L. Stephenson
	Methods of Analysis
	Steatite Vessels
	Pottery
	Pottery Tobacco Pipes
	Other Pottery Objects
	Projectile Points
	Other Chipped-stone Artifacts
	Ground and Polished-stone Artifacts
	Shell Artifacts
	Antler Artifacts
	Bone Artifacts
	Colonial Artifacts
V. Cultural Reconstruction and Chronology
	Background
	Cultural Sequence at the Accokeek Creek Site
	The Archaic Period
	The Early Woodland Period
	The Middle Woodland Period
	The Late Woodland Period
	The Colonial Period
VI. The Middle Atlantic Seaboard Culture Province
References Cited