[Various (1967)] As Coe points out in his introduction to his Piedmont report, the "complex" is a delusion. It is not a situation of diversity within 2 THE BULLETIN a cultural-time unit; it is a confusion of cultural-time units, brought about because a succession of cultures had occupied the same site and had left their remains in what was essentially the same soil stratum. Coe is quite blunt not only in relating from his experience how he came upon the "one cultural-time unit - one projectile point type" discovery but also in denying the validity of "complexes," insofar as they relate to projectile points. Before World War II, he says, and before the excavation of the Piedmont sites, he had begun a review of the enormous amount of aboriginal material already collected in the North Carolina area, with which, it was thought, some archaeological progress was being made. He writes (p.6): "When work was resumed in North Carolina in 1948, emphasis was placed on identifying and defining certain of these earlier complexes. During the following year a thorough study was made of collections from over a hundred sites in the Uwharrie area in an attempt to see whether the presence, absence, or repeated association of specific traits on those sites could identify a recurring cultural complex.