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to state definitely that the cultural range of the Gary Stemmed points 

 extended from the archaic through the Woodland and possibly con- 

 tinued into Mississippian times as a minor type, one should be sure of 

 his data. Tliis statement appears to be based purely upon conjecture 

 rather than upon actual fact. From present knowledge and data it 

 appears that this type neither occurred after the middle part of what 

 we have termed early Woodland in southern Virginia nor did any of 

 its variants. 



It has been indicated (Bell and Hall, 1953, p. 4) that the Gary 

 Stemmed is a dart point, and that similar points conforming to this 

 configuration occur in various Concho sites in Arizona (Wendorf and 

 Thomas, 1951, p. 109; and fig. 49, i and j). It would appear that 

 points of tliis type are possible outgrowths of the Gypsum Cave and 

 related types. 



All of these forms exhibit special variations of a more general cul- 

 ture that extended not only along the eastern littoral states, which 

 were adapted to the environment of the primeval forest of what appears 

 to be a form of the American Mesolithic or late Paleolithic times, but 

 to other sections of North America as well. The cultures adapted to 

 these specialized environmental conditions must be correlated with an 

 early date and very specialized food supply, but it is impossible, at this 

 time, to make time speculations and separations as to form, since not a 

 single undisturbed stratified site containing these forms has been lo- 

 cated thus far. 



Tong (1954, p. 126, fig. 43, 19-20) noted a similar type from the 

 Table Rock Dam and Reservoir area on the White River in the rugged 

 Ozark region of southwestern Missouri, and the archeological evidence 

 predicates an archaic horizon, similar to the Eastern Archaic, is devel- 

 oping at the Cox site, which lies a few miles upstream from the James 

 River arm of the proposed reservoir and is located on Crane Creek 

 approximately 1 mile above the confluence with James River. His 

 subtype 3 Stemmed Point is essentially a basic chert having the same 

 configuration and chipping techniques as those assigned to the Archaic 

 in Virginia. 



He (ibid., p. 128) states: 



Stemmed points of subtype 3 from Cox are very similar to points recovered by 

 University of Missouri archaeologists in the excavations of Rice Shelter on 

 White River some 35 miles southvpest of the Cox site. These points from Rice 

 Shelter extended from the lowest levels to fairly late times (Marshall, et al., 

 1953, pp. 8-11). Another very close similarity is betvt^een the projectile points 

 from the Cox site and preceramic horizons of northeastern Oklahoma. 



The Scott site, located in the southern part of Le Flore Coimty in 

 eastern Oklahoma in the Fourche Maline River valley, has yielded a 

 number of receding stemmed points which resemble the Gypsum Cave, 



