[Various (1967)] Since we have no prospects of finding such sites, in this area at least, to construct a model of the Taconic tradition we have had to make use of what appears to be the logic of technological and form development, added by some very slight chronological clues. For instance we do have, at our Twombly Landing site, now being excavated, a stop-date forward of 4750 years on a Taconic tradition point of our Hudson phase that would have, a few years ago, been called Lamoka. But the model is a construct that may or may not hold up as chronologically sensitive sites are excavated - if they ever are. Even so, it will serve as an order against which new finds may be tested. THE TACONIC TRADITION Before the Taconic tradition model is presented, however, something must be said about the collection of points it is a model of. These are the stemmed, usually small (though a medium and a large size was made, for different weapons or different uses) narrow-bladed points of which the best known examples are the Lamoka and Bare Island (Ritchie 1961) but which are found all the way from Georgia where Wauchope (1966: 141-44) lists them as "stemmed narrow blade," to Martha's Vineyard, where Ritchie (1966) calls them Wading River points, to the classic Lamoka site and thence to Michigan, where they are called Dustin points (Ritchie 1961: 29).