WESTERN SHORE COASTAL PLAIN |
TEMPER |
SURFACE
TREATMENT |
DECORATION |
OTHER
DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS |
CERAMIC
WARE |
Steatite |
Plain |
|
flat
bottoms; lug handles |
Marcey
Creek |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Selden
Island |
Sand |
Plain |
Plain,
Incised or Cord-Impressed |
|
Moyaone |
Cord-Marked |
Usually
undecorated |
Deep
cord marks, usually oblique to rim |
Accokeek |
Complex
decorations |
|
Minguannan |
Plain,
Incised or Cord-Impressed |
|
Moyaone |
Net-Impressed |
|
often
with interior scoring |
Popes
Creek |
Fabric-Impressed |
Complex
decorations |
|
Minguannan |
Quartz |
Cord-Marked |
Usually
undecorated |
Deep
cord marks, usually oblique to rim |
Accokeek |
Cord-wrapped
stick impressions |
|
Potomac
Creek |
Complex
decorations |
|
Minguannan |
Smoothed |
Cord-wrapped
stick impressions |
|
Potomac
Creek |
Fabric-Impressed |
Complex
decorations |
|
Minguannan |
Crushed
Rock |
Cord-Marked |
Complex
decorations |
|
Minguannan |
Fabric-Impressed |
Complex
decorations |
|
Shell |
Plain |
|
|
Yeocomico |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Mockley |
|
|
Sullivan
Cove |
Net-impressed |
|
|
Mockley |
Fabric-Impressed |
|
|
Townsend |
EASTERN
SHORE COASTAL PLAIN |
TEMPER |
SURFACE TREATMENT |
DECORATION |
OTHER DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS |
CERAMIC WARE |
Steatite |
Plain |
|
|
Marcey Creek |
Sand |
Cord-Marked |
Usually undecorated |
Deep cord marks,
usually oblique to rim |
Accokeek |
Complex decorations |
|
Minguannan |
Fabric-Impressed |
|
|
Hornblende |
Plain |
|
|
Dames
Quarter |
Gneiss |
Plain |
|
|
Quartz |
Cord-Marked |
Usually undecorated |
Deep cord marks,
usually oblique to rim; sherds range 6mm - 8mm thick |
Accokeek |
Undecorated |
Sherds average 10
mm in thickness |
Wolfe Neck |
Complex decorations |
|
Minguannan |
Net-Impressed |
Undecorated |
|
Wolfe Neck |
Fabric-Impressed |
Complex decorations |
|
Minguannan |
Crushed
Rock |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Minguannan |
Fabric-Impressed |
|
|
Grog |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Coulbourn |
Net-Impressed |
|
|
Shell |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Mockley |
Net-Impressed |
|
|
Fabric-Impressed |
|
|
Townsend |
PIEDMONT |
TEMPER |
SURFACE
TREATMENT |
DECORATION |
OTHER
DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS |
CERAMIC
WARE |
Steatite |
Plain |
|
|
Marcey
Creek |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Selden
Island |
Sand |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Accokeek |
Net-impressed |
|
|
Popes
Creek (rare) |
Quartz |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Accokeek |
Cord-wrapped
stick or Cord-Impressed |
|
Shephard |
Incised |
|
Shenks
Ferry |
Gneiss |
Cord-Marked |
Cord-wrapped
stick or Cord-Impressed |
|
Shephard |
Incised |
|
Shenks
Ferry |
Limestone |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Page |
Shell |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Mockley (rare) |
Cord-wrapped
stick or paddle impressions |
|
Keyser |
Net-impressed |
|
|
Mockley (rare) |
Smoothed |
Cord-wrapped
stick or paddle impressions |
|
Keyser |
Fabric-Impressed |
|
|
Townsend (rare) |
WESTERN
MARYLAND |
TEMPER |
SURFACE TREATMENT |
DECORATION |
OTHER DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS |
CERAMIC WARE |
Steatite |
Plain |
|
flat bottoms, lug
handles |
Marcey Creek (rare) |
Sand |
Cord-Marked |
Usually undecorated |
Deep cord marks,
usually oblique to rim |
Accokeek |
Quartz |
Cord-Marked |
Usually undecorated |
Deep cord marks,
usually oblique to rim |
Accokeek |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Shephard |
Gneiss |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Shephard |
Limestone |
Cord-Marked |
Undecorated |
|
Watson |
|
|
Page |
|
|
Monongahela |
Crushed
Rock |
Cord-Marked |
|
Interior cord-marking |
Vinette |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Page |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Monongahela |
Cord-Marked |
Cord-wrapped stick
impressions |
row of punctations
or raised nodes below rim |
Clemson Island |
Fabric-Impressed |
|
|
Clemson Island |
Shell |
Cord-Marked |
|
|
Keyser |
Smoothed |
|
|
Keyser |