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Artusy, Richard E., Jr.
1976  An Overview of the Proposed Ceramic Sequence in Southern Delaware.  Maryland Archeology 12(2):1-15.

Ayers, Harvard Glen
1972  The Archaeology of the Susquehanna Tradition in the Potomac Valley. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Anthropology, The Catholic University of America at Washington, D. C. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Bartlett, Charles S.,Jr.
1980  The Arrington Site (44WG27): An Early to Middle Woodland Campsite at Abingdon, Virginia. Archaeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 35:1

Benthal, Joseph L.
1969    Archeological Investigation of the Shannon Site, Montgomery County, Virginia. Virginia State Library, Richmond.
1979  Daugherty’s Cave: A Stratified Site in Russell County, Virginia.  Archeological Society of Virginia, Special Publication 18, Richmond.

Binford, Lewis R.
1964  Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigation of Cultural Diversity and Progressive Development Among Aboriginal Cultures of Coastal Virginia and North Carolina. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Binford, Lewis R.
1965  Colonial Period Ceramics of the Nottoway and Weanock Indians of Southeastern Virginia.  Archeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 19:78-87.

Blaker, Margaret C.
1952  Further Comments on Simple-Stamped Shell-Tempered Pottery.  American Antiquity 17(3):257-258.

Blaker, Margaret C.
1963  Aboriginal Ceramics: The Townsend Site Near Lewes, Delaware. The Archeolog 15.1:14-39.

Blanton, D.B., S.C. Pullins and V.L. Deitrick
1999  The Potomac Creek Site (44ST2) Revisited.  Virginia Department of Historic Resources Research Report Series No. 10. Prepared by the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg

Boyd, C.C.
1998    The 1997 Excavations at the Blessing Site (44BD20), Bland County Virginia. Report on file at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.

Bushnell, David I., Jr.
1937  Indian Sites Below the Falls of the Rappahannock, Virginia.  Smithsonian Institution, Miscellaneous Collections 96(4).

Coe, Joffre Lanning
1964  The Formative cultures of the Carolina Piedmont.  Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series, vol. 54, part 5.

Clark, Wayne E.
2001    The Clark Site: A Grayson Series Hamlet in Patrick County, Virginia.  Archeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin56:153-180.

Crane, H. R., and James B. Griffin.
1966  University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates XI.  Radiocarbon 8: 256 - 285.

Curry, Dennis C., and Maureen Kavanagh
1991  The Middle to Late Woodland Transition in Maryland. North American Archaeologist 12 (1):2-28.

Custer, Jay F.
1989   Prehistoric Cultures of the Delmarva Peninsula: An Archaeological Study. University of Delaware Press, Newark.

Deitrick, Veronica. L.
1999    The Cornelius Site (44WG35) Washington County, Virginia.  William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research.

Dent, Richard J., Jr.
1995  Chesapeake Prehistory: Old Traditions New Directions. Plenum Press, New York.

Dent, Richard J., Jr., and Christine A. Jirikowic
1990  Preliminary Report of Archaeological Investigations at the Hughes Site. Potomac River Archaeological Survey, Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington, D.C.

Dickens, Roy S.
1976  Cherokee Prehistory.  University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Egloff, Keith T.
1987  Ceramic Study of Woodland Occupation Along the Clinch and Powell Rivers in Southwest Virginia. 3. Virginia Department of Historic Resources Research Report Series No. 3. Richmond.

Egloff, Keith T., and Stephen R. Potter
1982  Indian Ceramics from Coastal Plain Virginia.  Archaeology of Eastern North America 10: 95-117.

Egloff, Keith T., Mary Ellen N. Hodges, Jay F. Custer, Keith R. Doms, and Leslie D. McFaden.
1988  Archaeological Investigations at Croaker Landing, 44JC70 and 44JC71. Virginia Department of Historic Resources Research Report Series No.4. Richmond

Egloff, Keith T. and Mary Ellen Norrisey Hodges
1989    The Cullers site, 44PA128, Page County, Virginia.  Virginia Department of Historic Resources Technical Report Series 2, Richmond.

Evans, Clifford
1955  A Ceramic Study of Virginia Archeology. Bulletin 160, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Fuerst, David
2008    Paper given at the 65th Annual SEAC conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Gardner, Paul S.
1980    An Analysis of Dan River Ceramics from Virginia and North Carolina.  Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Gardner, William M., and Charles W. McNett, Jr.
1971  Early Pottery in the Potomac.  In Proceedings of the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, ed. C. W. McNett and W. M. Gardner, pp. 42-52.  Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Geier, Clarence R.
1985  An Ode to a 1000 Piece Puzzle: The Comparative Anatomy of Four Early Late Woodland Huffman Phase Ceramic Assemblages. Archaeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 40:65-107.
Griffith, Daniel R.
1982  Prehistoric Ceramics in Delaware (An Overview).  Archaeology of Eastern North America 10:46-68.

Griffith, Daniel R. and Richard E. Artusy
1977 Middle Woodland Ceramics from Wolfe Neck, Sussex County, Delaware. The Archeolog 28(1):1-29.

Haag, William G.
1942  A Description and Analysis of the Pickwick Pottery. In: An Archaeological Survey of Pickwick Basin in the Adjacent Portions of the States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.  William S. Webb and David L. DeJarnette, editors.  Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 129. Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.

Harrington, J.C.
1948  Plain Stamped, Shell Tempered Pottery from North Carolina. American Antiquity 13(2):251-252.

Hodges, Mary Ellen Norrisey
1998  Native American Settlement at Great Neck.  Virginia Department of Historic Resources Research Report Series No. 9. Richmond

Hodges, Mary Ellen N., and Charles T. Hodges, editors
1994  Paspahegh Archaeology:  Data Recovery Investigations of Site 44JC308 at the Governor's Land at Two Rivers, James City County, Virginia.  Submitted to Governor's Land Associates, Inc. by James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc.

Holden, Patricia Padgett
1966  An Archaeological Survey of Transylvania County, North Carolina.  M.A. Thesis, Dept. of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Holland, C.G.
1960    Preceramic and Ceramic Cultural Patterns in Northwest Virginia. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 173.  Washington, D.C.

Holland, C.G.
1970  An Archaeological Survey of Southwest Virginia. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 12. Smithsonian, Washington D.C.

Holmes, William H.
1903  Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States. In Twentieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington, D.C.
Jirikowic, Christine A.
1999a  Keyser Ware Ceramics at the Hughes Site and in the Potomac Basin. Paper presented at the 1999 Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference.

Keel, Bennie C.
1976  Cherokee Archaeology. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Klein, Michael J., and J. Sanderson Stevens
1996  Ceramic Attributes and Accokeek Creek Chronology: Analysis of Sherds from the Falcon’s Landing (19PR131) and the Accotink Meander (44FX1908) Sites.  North American Archaeologist 17 (2): 113-142.

Kneberg, Madeline D.
1961  Four Southeastern Limestone-Tempered Pottery Complexes. Newsletter, Southeastern Archaeological Conference 7.

Kraft, Hubert C.
1970 The Miller Field Site, Warren County, New Jersey, Part I: Archaic and Transitional Stages. Archaeological Research Center, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.

Lafferty, Robert H., III
1981  The Phipps Bend Archaeological Project. TVA Publication in Anthropology 26.

Lewis, Thomas M.N., and Madeline Kneberg
1946  Hiwassee Island. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

MacCord, Howard A.
1969    Camden: A Postcontact Indian Site in Caroline County.  Archeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 24:1-
1998    The Martin Site (44WY13), Wythe County, Virginia. Archeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 53(4)171-203.

MacCord, Howard, Richard Slattery, and Carl Schmitt
1955  The Shepard Site Study. Archaeological Society of Maryland Bulletin 1:1-32.

Manson, Carl
1948  Marcey Creek Site: An Early Manifestation in the Potomac Valley. American Antiquity 13 (3):223-227.

Manson, Carl, Howard A. MacCord, and James B. Griffin
1944  The Culture of the Keyser Farm Site. In Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 29, edited by Eugene S. McCarthy and Henry Van der Schalie. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.

Marine, D., H.H. Hutchinson, O.H. Peets, and J.L. Parsons
1965 Preliminary Report on a Shell Deposit in the Wolfe Neck Archaeological Complex. Archeology 17(1).

McCann, Catherine
1950 The Ware Site, Salem County, New Jersey. American Antiquity Vol.15(4):315-331.

McGuire, Bernadine, and Clarence R. Geier
1984  A Limited Phase II Archaeological Evaluation of the Graham Site (44LE71), Lee County, Virginia. James Madison University Archarological Research Center, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

McIlhany, Calvert W.
1983  Phase III Archaeological Investigations of Site 44RU44 at the Proposed Fox Meadow Apartment Complex in Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia. Bartlett & Associates Geological Consultants, Abingdon, Virginia.

McLearen, Douglas C.
1987  Archaeology in Henrico Volume 5.  Report prepared by Virginia Commonwealth University Archaeological Research Center.  Submitted to Henrico County Department of Public Utilities.  On file at Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.

McLearen, Douglas C., and Beverly J. Binns
1992  Description and Analysis of Controlled Surface Collection of the Tree Hill Farm Site, 44HE674, Henrico County, Virginia.  Virginia Commonwealth University Archaeological Research Center, Richmond.

Miller, Carl F.
1962    Archeology of the John H. Kerr Reservoir Basin, Roanoke River Virginia-North Carolina. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 182.

Mouer, L. Daniel, Robin L. Ryder and Elizabeth G. Johnson
1981    The Elk Island Tradition: An Early Woodland Regional Society in the Virginia Piedmont.  Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 36.1 & 2:49-76.

Mouer, L. Daniel, editor.
1986  Archaeology in Henrico Volume 2.  Report prepared by Virginia Commonwealth University Archaeological Research Center.  Submitted to Henrico County Department of Public Utilities.  On file at Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.

Noel Hume, Ivor
1962  An Indian Ware of the Colonial Period.  Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 17(1):1-14.

Owen, Randolph M., Jr.
1969    Martin Farm, New Kent County.  Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 24.2:81-116.

Painter, Floyd
1977 The Beaker Maker of Currituck. Archaeology of Eastern North America. Vol. 5, pp. 43-60.
1978 The Beaker Maker of Currituck Carbon 14 Dates. The Chesopiean. 16(4-6).

Peck, Donald W.
1978  Preliminary Test Excavations at the Waveland Farm Site (18AN17). Maryland Archeology 14 (1-2):17-22.

Phelps, David Sutton
1983  Archaeology of the North Carolina Coast and Coastal Plain: Problems and Hypotheses in the Prehistory of North Carolina, An Archaeological Symposium. Edited by Mark A. Mathis and Jeffrey J. Crow, pp. 1-51. North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh.

Potter, Stephen R.
1982  An Analysis of Chicacoan Settlement Patterns.  Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
1993  Commoners, Tributes and Chiefs: The Development of the Algonquian Culture in the Potomac Valley.  University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Pullins, Stevan C.
1996  Ceramic Technology Early Woodland Settlement and Enfield Plantation Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery for Mitigation of Effects to Site  44KW81 Associated with the Route 629 Bridge Replacement, King William County, Virginia. William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research. Technical Report series No. 21.

Rogers, Anne Frazer
1982    The Jaybird Branch Project: Report of Investigations. Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina

Schmitt, Karl, Jr.
1952  An Archaeological Chronology of the Middle Atlantic States. In Archaeology of the Eastern United States, James B. Griffin, editor, University of Chicago Press.
1965  Patawomeke: An Historic Algonkian Site. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 20:1-36.

Slattery, Richard G.
1946  A Prehistoric Indian Site on Selden Island, Montgomery County, Maryland. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 36.8:262-266.

Slattery, Richard G. and Douglas R. Woodward
1992  The Montgomery Focus: A Late Woodland Potomac River Culture. Archeological Society of Maryland, Inc., Bulletin 2.

Smith, Gerald P.
1984  The Hand Site, Southampton County, Virginia.  Archeological Society of Virginia, Special Publication 11.

Stearns, Richard E.
1940  The Hughes Site, An Aboriginal Village Site on the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Maryland No. 6.

Stephenson, Robert L., Alice L. Ferguson, and Henry G. Ferguson
1963  The Accokeek Creek Site: A Middle Atlantic Seaboard Culture Sequence.  Anthropological Papers No 20, Museum of Anthropology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Stewart, R. Michael
1981  Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence Patterns and the Testing of Prehistoric Site Location Models in the Great Valley of Maryland. PhD dissertation, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor.
1982  Prehistoric Ceramics of the Great Valley of Maryland. Archaeology of Eastern North America 10:69-94.
1994  Prehistoric Farmers of the Susquehanna Valley: Clemson Island Culture and the St. Anthony Site.  Occasional publications in Northeastern Archaeology, No. 13.

Stewart. T. Dale
1992  Archaeological Exploration of Patawomeke: The Indian Town (44ST2) Ancestral to the One (44ST1) Visited in 1608 by Captain John Smith.  Contributions to Anthropology  No. 36. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Turner, E. Randolph Turner, III
1993  Native American Protohistoric Interactions in the Powhatan Core Area. In Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722, edited by Helen C. Rountree, pp. 76-93.  University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

2000  Opening an Early 17th century Time Capsule: How Native American Ceramics from Jamestown Island Can Help Identify Powhatan Contact Period Sites.  Paper Presented at 2000 Archeological Society of Virginia Annual Meeting, Franklin.

Wall, Robert D.
2000  Phase I Intensive
Archaeological Investigations at the MD 495/MD 948 Intersection Garrett County, Maryland. State Highway Administration Archaeological Report No. 223.
2001  Late Woodland Ceramics and Native Populations of the Upper Potomac Valley. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 17:15-37.

Waselkov, Gregory A.
1982  Shellfish Gathering and Shell Midden Archaeology.  PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Webb, William S.
1938  An Archaeological Survey of the Norris Basin in Eastern Tennessee. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 118. Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.

Wise, Cara
1974  Two Early Pottery Vessels from Kent County, Delaware.  T he Archeology 26 (1).  

Wise, Cara
1975  A Proposed Early to Middle Woodland Ceramic Sequence for the Delmarva Peninsula. Maryland Archeology 11 (1):21-29.
Woodward, Douglas R.
1976  Moyaone Ware Pot from Prince Georges County, Maryland. Maryland Archeology 12 (19).

Wright, Henry T.
1973  An Archaeological Sequence in the Middle Chesapeake, Maryland. Maryland Geological Survey Archeological Studies No. 1. Washington, D.C.