[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] An examination of the literature places this type early in the Early Woodland Period and an inspection of the material itself by John Zakucia of Pennsylvania confirms that similar ware is found immediately succeeding Fayette Thick in the upper Ohio Valley and in Pennsylvania. Thus the only pottery we have found in two years of digging at Kettle Rock Point is very early. This earliness or priority is confirmed by its stratigraphic position. The midden where our latest Vinette I-like pottery occurs itself lies under a top soil layer of from two to six inches. This soil consists of a huh-Ac content which includes shell fragments from the decay of the top of the midden, and a good scattering of rolled-down stones from the hillside above. It represents the soil history here since the occupation by the Vinette I-like pottery makers. But between this top midden and the midden below it is an exactly similar soil layer, consisting of rolled down stones in a one to four inch layer of black dirt. The domed shape of the lower middens--there are several separate shell heaps--is outlined in this black layer, obviously a long soil building period. The bottom series of middens are of *Paper delivered at annual meeting of NYSAA, April 8, 1962 No. 26 November 1962 13 distinctly larger oyster shell, with an occasional scallop showing up. These contain no pottery, nor is there pottery in any heap of medium to large shell anywhere on Kettle Rock Point.