A small collection of stone artifacts from an esker-ridge site at the edge of the Barren Lands, which includes an Agate Basin point and two Lerma points, but apparently no microblades, may be the earliest so far recognized in the Canadian tundra.

Proponents of the “type-variety” method of ceramic analysis are criticized for mixing analytical units and the rank hierarchies appropriate to synthesis, and for semantically substituting “type-variety” for “type” without actually changing the method of analysis.

Seven radiocarbon dates place the regional sequence from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1000, validate partially the method determining complexes at the site, and date the beginning of maize agriculture in the area.

Ritchie and Dragoo criticize Griffin, who rejected in his review their hypothesis that Adena groups migrated to the East Coast and Northeast, for basing his judgment on a few poorly documented sites, rather than on the large and recently excavated Adena sites in the Upper Ohio Valley and the Chesapeake Bay area. They summarize the evidence from these sites in terms of the questions raised in the review.