[NYSAA (1974)] follows from the difference in size that NYAC can and does respond more quickly to emergencies and can have meetings more frequently. The work of NYAC is conducted through a committee structure in which the committees are expected to operate and initiate between regular meetings. In addition to our Executive Committee, there are the following Standing Committees: Financial, Legislative Planning, *A version of this paper was presented at the 1974 Annual Meeting of the New York State Archeological Association. Published in accordance with a resolution of the Executive Committee. COVER ILLUSTRATION: Paleo-hunter pattern artifacts from Westchester County. Top point is from the Devereux site on the Sound. Others are from the Piping Rock site at the mouth of the Croton River. The Devereux point and the white quartz point just below it are fluted on both faces. The other lanceolates are believed to be transitional between Paleo-hunter fluted points and a proposed post-Paleo horizon of triangles, or simply unfluted types. 2 THE BULLETIN Primary and Secondary School Education, Public Understanding and Publicity. the surveys so that different archeologists' procedures will be uniform or interchangeable and quality control can be maintained. From the surveys will come the beginning of a central computerized site file which will be the nucleus for a statewide central site location data bank. Every archeologist is urged to contribute site information. NYAC will provide the site forms upon request. Any site reported may be designated "restricted" to insure that the information is used only for site preservation purposes. Thanks to the cooperation of DHP, NYAC has gained some measure of input and control over what Federal projects are being planned, but we are not yet effectively using the Environmental Protection laws for the full benefit of preserving archeological resources. We would appreciate any information you can provide our Environmental Coordinator Ellis McDowell of SUNY College at Cortland about your activities with environmental affairs or EIS'. Another important by-product of NYAC's serving as a clearinghouse for surveys and environmental business is control to keep the State's archeological resources safe from out-of-Staters, especially environmental staff archeologists who are uninformed and who lack a sustained interest in New York archeology. Our aim is to maximize the useful data coming from these environmental studies so that they are useful for future research as well as the present exigency. The preservation of archeological resources is the final NYAC focus. There are two major legislative tools available to archeologists to further the preservation of archeological sites. One consists of the Environmental Laws and Regulations already mentioned. The second is a special site status either through the National Register of Historic Sites, or the New York State Education law, which protects sites on State property. These tools if used by archeologists can greatly increase the in dentation and position on the vessel interior. The secondary design element below the exterior decoration is found on Fig. 7, Pl. 7. Figs. 6 and 7 of Pl. 10 bear herringbone designs in stamped linear herringbone or a familiar rim encirclin g design, not in a corded, but in a stamped technique above a herring-bone in similar execution. The lip of the last described sherd is also transversely stamped; both may be techniques of Middle Owasco times (Ritchie and MacNeish, 1949, p. 111). The sherd , Fig. 8, is a well-developed specimen of later Owasco horizons, of unknown antecedents but, like Castle Creek pots, it has a conge molding above an encircling corded-stick decoration on a corded body. The sherd may signify the temporal extent of the Owasco ceramic sequence at Round Top. The termination of the site continuum many decades after Owasco occupation is confirmed by materials recovered from a small freshwater mussel shell heap near the river edge, representing occupancy during Mohawk development (Pl. 11). Bone and Rough Stone As with ceramics, other categories of Round Top recoveries show Owasco traits. Materials excavated. from pits are well preserved, with little or no alteration by local soils. Bone and antler work is scarce, though it is well-known on other Owasco components (Pl. 12, Figs. 14-16), excepting for those specimens with incising tips and curved edges suggesting use as pottery tools (Figs. 17, 18) and the bone object, Fig. 26, with no known counterpart on other Owasco stations. A fragmented, unilateral, weakly -barbed harpoon (Fig. 21) stratigraphically situated with Point Peninsula sherds having round rims or platting (Pl. 9, Figs. 5, 6, and Pl. Museum. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Giddings, Edward B., Flora, Donald F., and Olson, Gerald W. 1971 Soil survey of Broome County, New York U.S. Govt. Printing Office. Griffin, James B., Editor 1952 Archeology of Eastern United States. The University of Chicago Press. Laccetti, Michael F. 1965 The Round Top site: A postulated Early Owasco Component. New York State Archeological A s s o c