The projectile points known as Fishtail or Fell represent a specific design associated with the earliesthunter-gatherers of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in South America. Brazil was traditionallyconsidered as a ...

Here we report a newly discovered Fishtail projectile point, or Fell 1 projectile-point type, from Characato valley in the southern Pampean Hills of central Argentina. It is a fluted basal stem fragment on a non-local dark ...

The use of crystal quartz for making fishtail projectile points is reported in several sites in Uruguay. The widespread use of translucent crystal quartz by Paleo South Americans across suggests that raw material was not ...

A research program directed to deepening the knowledge and understanding of Paleo-American “fishtail” points is being carried out. In pursuit this goal, lithic remains from Cerro Largo department, northeastern Uruguay is ...

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 early peopling of the continent. In this ...

Here we report a newly discovered Fishtail, or Fell 1, projectile-point type, from Coronel José Dias, southern Piauí, northeastern Brazil. It is an almost complete bifacial piece on light local silex. In Brazil, Fishtail ...