[Various (1967)] from a simpler, more generalized, and more widely disseminated and mobile hunting and fishing manifestation which probably antedated 3000 B. C." This "simpler, more generalized" culture would be the Taconic tradition point makers, but of what it consisted we know only the points for sure. CONCLUSION Coe's excavations in the Piedmont of North Carolina, corroborated by Broyles in West Virginia, have established the projectile point "specific theme" or tradition as a culture tracing principle. Sufficient points of one specific theme, the narrow-bladed, stemmed, small point have been excavated from a sufficient number of sites in the lower Hudson River Valley to recognize a tradition, herein named the Taconic tradition. This theme occurs throughout the Northeast region and southward along the Atlantic coast and along coastal rivers and must therefore be presumed to be an important cultural element with implication of population spread. Its known extent of occurrence gives no clue to its origins nor do the form and technology of Taconic points give any clue from what prior tradition they may have evolved. The tradition probably disappeared into acculturation. That such an ubiquitous tradition everywhere died out or petered out is hard to believe. It was probably a constituent of the early Woodland in the coastal East and elsewhere. A great deal remains to be learned about it. BIBLIOGRAPHY Broyles, Bettye 1966 Excavations at the St.