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NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 7 (part 6)

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[Various (1967)] But they do not appear in an early or even Middle Archaic sequence so far reported from the South, on Coe's excavations, at Russell Cave, or at the Stanfield-Worley Rockshelter. The implication is that they are quite late in the south, where very different printmaking traditions dominated the Archaic. In Michigan, at the other end of an arc that would have the Twombly site near its mid-point, Lewis Binford, as reported by Ritchie (1965:78), has discovered Dustin narrow -bladed, stemmed points below Brewerton type corner-notched points, while at another site "Laurentian-like materials" occurred below Dustin points. This contradictory provenience is what we might expect of contemporaneous traditions found at different sites in the same locale and so merely duplicates the New York situation, giving no clue whatever to whence the tradition came. One can carry speculation far afield. Meredith K. Scheutz has named "San Gabriel" a collection of points from Williamson County, Texas, (Scheutz, 1957) that in style, size , size variations, and execution, as described and illustrated, fit the Taconic tradition neatly. The trail of this theme seems to cross into Oklahoma and Missouri, but the poorly placed chronological provenience still seems to fall into the span of the la te Archaic -Early Woodland. Needless to say, this is of no help to speculation.