[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] 11 OAKFIELD FORT 7 LITERATURE In addition to the highly significant report on Tule Springs mentioned on page 1, 1962 produced another archaeological study that ought to be in the library of every chapter of NYSAA. This is "The Paleo-Indian Tradition in Eastern North America" by Ronald J. Mason in Current Anthropology, June, 1962. In the method of presentation used by this new, and major, periodical (published five times a year) the lead article is accompanied by a series of critiques and comments by specialists who have read it before publication. Thus the Mason piece, about 20 pages long, is followed by 24 pages of critiques from 20 specialists in the area of the Paleo-hunter, the whole comprising the most definitive summary to date of the current state of knowledge of pre-Archaic, stone-projectile point cultures east of the Continental Divide. In his own summary of his piece, Mason says: "Information from western sites and an analysis of the role of the hunting of Late Pleistocene big-game suggest, in the absence of contrary evidence, that it was this specialized subsistence base that initially granted man the necessary mobility to penetrate and occupy the East before diversification of his stone industry could occur. "Indications of cultural units following the Clovis complex in time are provided by later fluted and nonfluted lanceolate points (Cumberland, Quad, Reagen, etc. ) the distribution of which is more circumscribed.