[Various (1967)] We have taken them from almost every site excavated or collected from in this area - some ten productive sites-and wherever the site collection is large, Taconic tradition points 6 THE BULLETIN No. 39, March 1967 7 8 THE BULLETIN are the largest fraction. We have thus had adequate opportunity for comparison and sufficient motivation to make something of them, since they loom as the largest archaeological problem we have to solve. We know that any Archaic site hereabouts that we excavate in the future will produce more Taconics, amongst its miscellany of point styles, whether it be a shellmidden or an inland site, than any other style. The Taconic tradition is a fact, a very large and widespread fact that has somehow been overlooked through the decades of research. PHASE EVOLUTION Our model begins with points having these attributes: phase one, narrow, tight-shouldered blade, lenticular in outline and cross section, with a thick knobby or indifferently squared stem with, usually, a basal flatness of the stem. See Fig. 1 and Fig 2. In phase two all attributes are as in phase one but the stem has been thinned, though it still usually exhibits indifferent outline shaping.