[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Furthermore, while the relative absence of chipped stone debitage in the excavated area may be a result of sampling bias, it would have been expected that more lithic artifacts would have infiltrated into the rest of the site than have to date been found. Since this has not been the case, it can be argued that the inhabitants of this site focused on activities not requiring the extensive manufacture, use, or repair of chipped stone tools. In other words, it appears that Mulcaster Island East is not a hunting or fishing camp. It is a distinct possibility that sites exhibiting a disproportionate quantity of ceramics are representations of either unique, specialized resource extraction sites within a larger regional subsistence pattern , or they reflect specialized activ-