[Various (1971)] This phase is typified by narrow side-notched points of the Normanskill type (Ritchie 1961: 37-38), well made winged and perforated atlatl weights and effigy pestles, and is radiocarbon dated at 1930 B.C. ± 100 years (Y-1169) at the large, apparently central-base camp, on the Bent site, and at 1760 B.C. ± 100 years (I-2401) at the small Pickle Hill hunting camp site in Warren County (Weinman, Weinman and Funk 1967). The narrow point tradition clearly had its roots to the south of our area, presumably in the Middle Atlantic region. It seems to be widely spread throughout the Coastal Plain, piedmont and much of the Appalachian Highland province. For this reason I have questioned the appropriateness of the term "Taconic tradition," proposed by Brennan (1967:5) and the alternate term "Appalachian tradition" suggested by Funk (by conversation) (Ritchie 1969a: 144). I believe the Sylvan Lake and Squibnocket complexes, essentially the same, represent the introduction of new cultural groups, spreading northward along the Coastal Plain and up the major river valleys (Ritchie 1969b: 214, 219). Although our radiocarbon dates for these cultures in eastern New York and southern New England are around 2200 B.C., and stratigraphically they overlie components of the Laurentian tradition, dated between 27002500 B.C. in the same areas, I suspect that the antecedents of the narrow point tradition will prove to have an antiquity in the southern core area at least equal to that of the Laurentian.