excavation, and consisted of a series of eight 5 foot squares again taken down to the yellow clay. Eleven Big Sandy points were recovered just above this presumably sterile layer, along with the base of a Greenbrier Dalton. Later excavations on various other parts of the locale provided similar findings. Studies Soday's Quads site collection was among a sample of tools from various large Northeast and Carolina Paleoindian sites studied by Edwin Wilmsen. Wilmsen made a series of measurements on groups of artifacts from these areas, including edge angle, length, width and thickness, and found the Quad assemblage made up of long, heavy and steep edged tools when compared to those from other Paleoindian sites. Wilmsen suggested that these characteristics indicated a culture made up of small bands making numerous trips to the site, perhaps on a seasonal basis. Wilmsen also proposed that the tool kit indicated Paleoindian subsistence at the site was geared toward foraging of plants and small animals, rather than the presumed hunting of Pleistocene megafauna such as bison and mastodon. John Walthall proposed that the Quad locality had been a series of oxbow lakes and swamps prior to the completion of Wheeler Dam. These lakes had been proven favored hunting ranges for early man in Alabama because of their attraction to animals. He also suggested that the use of the location may have been enhanced by a popular prehistoric river ford, which he noted was one of the reasons for the founding of the city of Decatur in this particular spot in 1821. Notes from the individuals who collected the site indicate that the oxbow lakes were of more recent vintage; and that the series of backwater loci suggest the location of the Tennessee River channel during the Pleistocene. Cambron and Hulse commented on 14 unfinished fluted points and seven channel flakes from various sites, including the Quad site, in an attempt to determine the preferred lithic materials and discuss manufacturing techniques. Through experimentation they noted that points with a median ridge were easier to flute, thus suggesting that longer flutes on the ridged Cumberland points possibly represented a "refinement" of the Clovis fluting method. Variants of Ft. Payne chert make up the majority of material types from their sample, but two pieces produced from Bangor flint were included, as well as one of Dover flint. The final report by Cambron and Hulse, discussed finds from