[Various (1967)] The Taconic tradition is, then, a characteristic theme of narrow-bladed, stemmed, small (with some specimens large enough to indicate use on a different kind of weapon than the small) projectile points of the Late Archaic, stopping short at least in this area, of the soapstone horizon Transitional but probably influencing later cultural facies. The only diagnostic artifact produced by the tradition seems to have been the projectile point. Simple, tie -on, winged bannerstones may have been used, but they are not numerous and not certainly, on the culturally mixed sites where Taconic points occur, associated. The bit of a very thin well-made bevelled adze appears to belong to the Taconic points at 12 THE BULLETIN Twombly, but in our 15 years of finding Taconic points this is the only such occurrence. There is some evidence that the projectile point itself was the tool form for perforators, drills, reamers, knives, and scrapers and no other distinctive tool was made. The only facies of the Taconic that attained any diversity was Lamoka, but it must be pointed out that our excavations have been shellmidden sites (Twombly, Crawbuckie, Parham Ridge, etc or hunting sta tions (Winterich, Hanotak Rockshelter) and not full-cultured village situations like the classic Lamoka Lake site. Of the Lamoka culture Ritchie (1965:789) says: "At the moment, the writer's guess is that the Lamoka culture . . , had its essential development in the area where its remains are found . . . .