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Paleomagnetic Results from the Urupez Paleoindian Site, Maldonado Department, Uruguay
(Center for the Study of the First Americans, 2008-12)
The Urupez site (34° 49′ 15″ S, 55° 19′ 02″ W) is located in the Tarariras Creek basin, ca. 300 m north of the Río de la Plata (Maldonado department, Republic of Uruguay, Figure 1A). Archaeological excavations yielded a ...
Cueva del Medio: A Paleoindian Site and Its Environmental Setting in Southern South America
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-04-08)
This article reports the results of the palynological analysis obtained from one of the archaeological profiles exposed at Cueva del Medio, a Paleoindian site located at the southern tip of South America (Ultima Esperanza, ...
Archaelogy, Paleoindian Research and Lithic Technology in the Middle Negro River, Central Uruguay
(Scientific Research, 2013-07)
The Negro river is the most important inner fluvial course in Uruguay. Its basin, mainly the middle portion, has produced an unusual archaeological record characterized by a significant evidence of Paleoindian remains. ...
Technological Remarks on the Folsom Bifacial Artifacts from the Barker Site, New Mexico
(Center for the Study of the First Americans, 2007-12)
As a part of a long-term project directed towards experimental and comparative technological research on diverse Paleoindian lithic assemblages from the Americas, this paper reports observations made on bifacial artifacts ...
New Paleoindian Finds, Further Fell Points Data, and Technological Observations from Uruguay: Implications for the Human Peopling in Southeastern South America
(Scientific Research, 2018-01)
Mainly represented by “fishtail” or Fell points (~11,000 - 10,000 uncalibrated years BP), Paleoindian remains in Uruguay are distributed over a wide area. However, just a few stratified sites have yielded evidence of the ...
LAGOA SANTA REVISITED: AN OVERVIEW OF THE CHRONOLOGY, SUBSISTENCE, AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF PALEOINDIAN SITES IN EASTERN CENTRAL BRAZIL
(SOC AMER ARCHAEOLOGYWASHINGTON, 2012)
Lagoa Santa, a karstic area in eastern Central Brazil, has been subject to research on human paleontology and archaeology for 175 years. Almost 300 Paleoindian human skeletons have been found since Danish naturalist Peter ...
Arrival of paleo-indians to the southern cone of south america: new clues from mitogenomes
(PUBLIC LIBRAY OF SCIENCE, 2012)
Paleoindian pinniped exploitation in South America was driven by oceanic productivity
(Elsevier, 2014-05)
After centuries of pinniped exploitation, hunter-gatherers from the Atlantic coast of southern South America shifted in several occasions to other animal resources during the second half of the Holocene. The shift has been ...
Morphometric and mtdna analyses of archaic skeletal remains from southwestern south america
(2011)
For decades anthropologists have discussed how and when the Americas were peopled. The prevailing view is that the first
Paleoindians, ancestors of the Amerindians, arrived from Asia and Beringia to the American continent ...
Fishtail projectile points from South America: the Brazilian record
(Scientific Research Publishers, 2015-05)
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 ...