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Archaic Indian Points: Archaic is from the Greek word, arkhaikos, meaning old fashioned. William A. Ritchie (1932) first used the term "Archaic" in American archeological literature to describe the cultural material, primarily chipped stone tools, from the Lamoka Lake Site in New York. In the 1930s and 1940s, southeastern sites that were recognized as producing materials similar to Lamoka Lake were also classified as Archaic. Today, archeologists use the term to describe a cultural period, differentiated from the earlier Paleoindian period points and tools and more recent Woodland and Mississippian periods on the basis of stylistic differences in point types, the appearance of other artifacts, and changes in Indian economic orientation.