TITLE:
Paleoamericans in Northeast Argentina
AUTHORS:
Daniel Loponte, Mirian Carbonera
KEYWORDS:
Fishtail Projectile Points, Paleoindian, South America, Northeast Argentina
JOURNAL NAME:
Archaeological Discovery,
Vol.5 No.2,
April
30,
2017
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we present a brief synthesis of the record of Fell or Fishtail points found in northeast Argentina, including the first two records for Misiones province. To date, 11 pieces have been identified in the region, which demonstrate techno-morphological similarities with specimens recovered in different areas of South America, which are linked to Paleoamerican groups of the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary. Although these points are still scarce in this area, this is probably due to the lack of research and issues related to archaeological visibility. These new records increase the density of findings of these early hunter-gatherers on the South American Atlantic slope.