Fishtailed projectile points in the Americas: Remarks and hypotheses on the peopling of northern South America and beyond

HG Nami - Quaternary International, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to find out about and discuss the peopling of the Americas, there is evidence that
comes from a range of scientific disciplines. In archaeology, stone tool vestiges are one of …

[PDF][PDF] Rethinking early objects and landscapes in the Southern Cone: Fishtail-point concentrations in the Pampas and northern Patagonia

N Flegenheimer, L Miotti, N Mazzia - Paleoamerican odyssey, 2013 - academia.edu
According to our analysis Cerro El Sombrero and Cerro Amigo Oeste exhibit similar features
regarding objects and landscapes. Both hilltops were chosen for their panoramic view and …

Fishtail points from the Pampas of South America: their variability and life histories

N Flegenheimer, C Weitzel - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2017 - Elsevier
Fishtail points (FTP) related to the terminal Pleistocene peopling of the South American
continent present morphological, technological and functional variability. We discuss a …

Changes and continuities of hunting practices from the late Pleistocene to the late Holocene among nomadic societies of the Patagonian plateaus

L Miotti, L Marchionni, D Hermo, E Terranova… - … hunting strategies in …, 2021 - Springer
The research developed from different lines of evidence in the central plateau of Santa Cruz
and the Somuncurá plateau of Río Negro, provides information for approaching the hunting …

A hill full of points in Terra Incognita from Patagonia: notes and reflections for discussing the way and tempo of initial peopling

L Miotti, E Terranova - PaleoAmerica, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We present the environmental and archeological results of research at Cerro Amigo Oeste, a
mesa-top archeological site with Fishtail points located on the Somuncurá Plateau, northern …

Human dispersal in the Atlantic slope of Patagonia and the role of lithic availability

NV Franco, LA Borrero, GF Lucero - PaleoAmerica, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of different resources in the human
ranking of habitats during the peopling of the Atlantic slope of Central-South Patagonia, as …

New records of fishtail projectile points from Brazil and its implications for its peopling

D Loponte, M Okumura, M Carbonera - Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016 - journals.ed.ac.uk
Fishtail or Fell projectile points constitute a specific design associated with early hunter-
gatherers at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in many parts of South America, especially …

Breakage patterns on fishtail projectile points: Experimental and archaeological cases

C Weitzel, N Flegenheimer, M Colombo… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Fishtail projectile points, also known as Fell 1, are dated between 11,000 and 9,500 14C yr
BP in South and Central America and have been traditionally considered diagnostic of the …

Moving into an arid landscape: Lithic technologies of the Pleistocene–Holocene transition in the high-altitude basins of Imilac and Punta Negra, Atacama Desert

R Loyola, I Cartajena, L Núñez, MP López - Quaternary International, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, we use taphonomic and technological analyses as a basis for study of the
spatial and temporal variability of six lithic assemblages from the Pleistocene-Holocene …

[HTML][HTML] Tecnología y uso de materias primas en puntas cola de pescado de la meseta de Somuncurá (Provincia de Río Negro, Argentina)

D Hermo, E Terranova, L Miotti - Chungará (Arica), 2015 - SciELO Chile
Se presentan análisis tecnológicos realizados sobre un conjunto de puntas cola de
pescado registrados en sitios en torno a la laguna de Las Vacas, en la meseta de …