[Various (1967)] It was assumed that, if a significant number of traits were found to occur together in a series of sites, then they were probably the physical remains of the activities of a particular group of people at a particular period of time. The first results of this effort appeared to be rewarding and the Guilford and Badin foci were first defined on the basis of this assumed association of traits. It was disappointing, therefore, when this small bubble of success was punctured by the irrefutable evidence that those recurring complexes of traits were in reality the remains of recurring occupations on those sites by the same sequence of people." What burst the bubble was that, in the light of the Piedmont stratified riverbank excavations, Coe found included in his "Badin Focus," of which the pottery was dated at 1500 years ago, artifacts of the Stanly horizon (7000 yrs. old), the Kirk horizon (8000 yrs. old), and the Hardaway horizon (9000 yrs. old). He adds the comment "many full time archaeologists, on the other hand, are still creating mythical complexes today." Coe’s Piedmont excavations do not stand as a unique example in one locale of the situation he found there. Bettye Broyles, Assistant State Archaeologist in West Virginia, who worked with Coe on the Piedmont sites, has been excavating a similar riverbank sequence at St. Albans, West Virginia, on the Kanawha River, with similar results (Broyles 1966: 11).