[Various (1967)] Rouse (1960: 313) has used the taxonomic word "mode" for the same concept, defining it thus: "By the term mode is meant any standard concept or custom which governs the behavior of the artisans of a community, which they hand down from generation to generation and which they may spread from community to community over considerable distances." When Coe writes of "one specific theme" he is within the meaning of "tradition" and "mode." The Coe Axiom is a discovery in the sense that Coe made it archaeologically in situ, finding in each of the separated strata of his four sites a single projectile point style or specific theme, and it is novel in the sense that it was found by him to apply to the Archaic. This consistency of projectile point types or styles, or "specific theme," has already been noted at both ends of the presently accepted chronological scale of projectile points. The Clovis fluted point is a clear case of adherence to a single design tradition on a continent-wide scale through perhaps two millenia. Equally conservative, as New York workers in the protohistoric period well know, were the Iroquois, in the monotonous reproduction of their tangless triangulars. Generally speaking, that dogmatic catch-all, the "complex”, by which were grouped together stylistically diverse and often technologically incongruous points in a cultural unit, is found mainly in the literature on the Archaic.