page_title: Prehistory of West Virginia
section_title: Mid-Atlantic ceramics list
hierarchical_section_title: Prehistory of West Virginia / Ceramic industry / Mid-Atlantic ceramics list
caption_attribution_description: Български: Местообитанието на Часи. Dansk: Vandskellet omkring Chesapeake Bay. English: The Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Español: Mapa de la cuenca hidrográfica de la bahía de Chesapeake (en blanco), mostrando los estados a los que drena. Nederlands: Chesapeake Bay stroomgebied. English: Chesapeake Bay Watershed overlaid on political map of Mid-Atlantic states It is a large body of water
context_page_description: The Prehistory of West Virginia spans ancient times until the arrival of Europeans in the early 17th century. Hunters ventured into West Virginia's mountain valleys and made temporary camp villages since the Archaic period in the Americas. Many ancient human-made earthen mounds from various mound builder cultures survive, especially in the areas of Moundsville, South Charleston, and Romney. The artifacts uncovered in these areas give evidence of a village society with a tribal trade system culture that included limited cold worked copper. As of 2009, over 12,500 archaeological sites have been documented in West Virginia.
context_section_description: A partial list of Mid-Atlantic States Ceramics follows:
  Accokeek pottery dates from 900 BCE–300 BCE throughout the Coastal Plain of Maryland and into Virginia to the James River. (Type Site Accokeek Creek, 18PR8)
  Clemson Island pottery  dates from 800–1400 CE in Great Valley (upper Potomac River tributaries), Ridge and Valley regions of Maryland, central Pennsylvania, Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and north-western Virginia.
  Keyser is shell-tempered Cord-marked pottery which dates from 1400–1550 CE throughout the Piedmont, Great Valley, and Ridge and Valley regions of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. (Type Site, Clemson Island)
  Marcey Creek pottery dates from 1000–750 BCE; 1200–800 BCE throughout the Coastal Plain and Piedmont Regions, from Delaware south to the James River in Virginia. (Type Site, Marcey Creek site)
  Schultz pottery dating to 1600 CE has incised decoration, usually in triangular or diamond shaped patterns. These are found in western Maryland, south western Pennsylvania, the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia and north western Virginia. Kent examined detailed ceramic descriptions of the pre-Contact Susquehannock sequence.
  Selden Island pottery dates from 1000–750 BCE from Virginia to Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania, throughout the Maryland Coastal Plain and Piedmont. (Type Site, Selden Island 18MO20)
  Shepard pottery dates from 900–1450 CE throughout the Piedmont and Great Valley regions of Maryland, and also rarely in the western Coastal Plain (Chesapeake Bay). (Type Site, Shepard Site 18MO3, Maryland sites with Shephard components Biggs Ford (18FR14)*, Devilbiss (18FR38)*, Rosenstock (18FR18)*, Shepard (18MO3), Hughes (18MO1)*, Winslow (18MO9) *collections at the MAC Lab.)
  Townsend ceramics found on the Shores of Maryland and the Eastern Shores of Virginia of the Late Woodland, Slaighter Creek Complex. Blaker, in 1963, defined this Delmarva Peninsula pottery as shell tempered, fabric impressed, conoidal with various incised and corded motifs Townsend wares date from 950–1600 CE. (MAC)
  Vinette pottery dates from 600 BCE–200 CE on the east coast from New England to Maryland and west to central New York and the Ottawa valley of eastern Ontario, primarily in rockshelters and in surface collections in Maryland. (Type Site, Vinette Site, northeast of Finger Lakes, New York). Maryland sites with Vinette components are the Chickadee Rock Shelter (18WA13), Bushey's Cavern (18WA18); the Barton Complex (18AG3, 18AG8) nor radiocarbon dates in Maryland.
caption: The Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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