The First Paleoindian Fishtail Point Find in Salta Province, Northwestern Argentina

Fishtail or Fell projectile points represent an excellent marker to know the presence of earliest hunter-gatherers populations living during the end of the Pleistocene and its transition to the Holocene. They are widespread in many places along Central and South America. However, there are certain a...

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Autores: Patané Aráoz, Claudio J., Nami, Hugo Gabriel
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/18584
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/18584
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:FISHTAIL POINTS
LITHIC TECHNOLOGY
SOUTH AMERICA
NOTHWESTERN ARGENTINA
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
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Resumo:Fishtail or Fell projectile points represent an excellent marker to know the presence of earliest hunter-gatherers populations living during the end of the Pleistocene and its transition to the Holocene. They are widespread in many places along Central and South America. However, there are certain areas with elusive occurrence. Adding new information on the continental and regional distributions of this paleo South American artefact, this paper reports a detailed morphological and technological study of the first fishtail point found in the Salta province, Northwestern Argentina.