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 …

12,000 years away from the sea: Long-term circulation of Pacific shells in the Semiarid North of Chile (South America)

DH Castillo, A Troncoso, C Méndez, D Pascual… - Quaternary Science …, 2025 - Elsevier
Marine resources provide a baseline for understanding the sociohistorical trajectories of
Andean societies using Pacific coastal environments. This study examines seashell …

High resolution AMS 14C dates for late Pleistocene Fishtail technology from the Tigre site, Uruguay river basin, South America

R Suárez - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The basin of the Uruguay middle river has contributed important advances related to
knowledge of the early settlement of southeastern South America. This paper presents …

Paleoamerican occupation, stone tools from the Cueva del Medio, and considerations for the Late Pleistocene archaeology in southern South America

HG Nami - Quaternary, 2019 - mdpi.com
Archaeological excavations at the Cueva del Medio performed during the 1980s and 1990s
yielded an important record of both faunal and stone tool remains, as well as data, to discuss …

Taguatagua 3: A new late Pleistocene settlement in a highly suitable lacustrine habitat in central Chile (34° S)

R Labarca, M Frugone-Álvarez, L Vilches, JF Blanco… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
We present the results of the excavations and analyses of the diverse and exceptional
archaeological assemblage of Taguatagua 3, a new late Pleistocene site located in the …

Machine learning-based identification of geomorphological units in Quintero Bay (32° S) and its implications for the search for early drowned archaeological sites on …

V Flores-Aqueveque, H Neira-Santander… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
High-resolution predictive modeling of submerged landscapes has successfully allowed the
detection of early archaeological sites that are presently underwater. These models have …

Bioavailable strontium, human paleogeography, and migrations in the southern Andes: a machine learning and GIS approach

R Barberena, M Cardillo, G Lucero… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Andes are a unique geological and biogeographic feature of South America. From the
perspective of human geography, this mountain range provides ready access to highly …

New chronostratigraphic records of the early-to-middle Holocene in the north-central region of Chile indicate Andean foothills housed hunter-gatherers during pulses …

S Grasset, A Nuevo-Delaunay, J Álvarez… - The …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The scarcity of middle Holocene radiocarbon dates in different regions of the Andes has
been interpreted as an indicator of discontinuity in human occupations in response to …

Mobility and raw material procurement by Fishtail people in Uruguay: Evaluation of silcrete long distance transport between campsites and outcrops during the late …

R Suárez, F Barceló - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Lithic artifacts from late Pleistocene manufactured in silcrete are used to understand Fishtail
behaviors linked to mobility, land use and raw material acquisition during early prehistory in …

Fell points from Merín Lagoon, Uruguay: new data and their relevance to the peopling of south-eastern South America

HG Nami - Antiquity, 2022 - cambridge.org
The dating and routes by which humans colonised South America continue to be debated.
Recent research in Uruguay has yielded new Palaeoindian lithic finds from the southern …