the 1961 season, a year that was marked by the rupture of Wheeler Dam and basin water levels falling to record lows. Hulse reported the discovery of two Clovis points from the Last Site near Stone Pipe, while Cambron shared a Cumberland from the Pine Tree Site. Legacy The Quad site is one of three Paleoindian complexes in Alabama, along with Coffee Slough and Heaven's Half Acre that are known to have produced over 100 fluted points, putting them among the top ten most dense fluted point sites in North America. Public interest surrounding the discovery and reporting of the Quad site led to a number of important changes in the way archaeology was performed in Alabama during the 1960s and 1970s. Members of the Alabama Archaeological Society formed the Archaeological Research Association of Alabama (ARAA) in 1960, intending to identify and excavate an intact site with a fluted point component. The ARAA generated financial support for archaeological work via public donation, and coupled with free labor provided by the Alabama Archaeological Society, providing professional archaeologists the ability to contribute to numerous excavations and surveys at very low cost. The ARAA (now defunct) soon became a program of national renown, a decade long partnership between avocational and professional archaeologists that remains unmatched to this day. The partnership between the AAS and ARAA resulted in numerous excavations and surface surveys over the next two decades, the most salient being the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter led by David L. DeJarnette, which produced the first Late Paleoindian (Dalton) radiocarbon date in Alabama. The AAS remains an active archaeological partner in Alabama to this day. References 1954 archaeological discoveries Archaeological sites in Alabama Decatur, Alabama Native American history of Alabama Paleo-Indian archaeological sites in the United States