Accokeek Creek Site

Accokeek Creek Site, or Moyaone, in Piscataway Park on the Potomac River preserves a long record of human occupation from about 2000 B.C. to the historic era. It is especially significant for a palisaded village occupied from about A.D. 1300 to 1630 and understood to have been the largest and last-occupied Piscataway village before Europeans arrived. Archaeologists used the site to define prehistoric cultural sequences and ceramic chronology in the Mid-Atlantic, drawing on evidence from settlement layers, ossuaries, and Moyaone pottery. Later work and its designation as a National Historic Landmark reinforced its importance, which also endures for the Piscataway people.

Fort Hunt, Virginia · United States