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 ...

We examine botanical and lithic assemblages from two rock-shelters in a high elevation desert in NW Argentina in order to understand the relationship between the size of foraging radii, territorial ranges and habitat quality ...

En este trabajo se reflexiona sobre el valor que los colores pudieron tener para las primeras sociedades que poblaron el centro-este del área serrana de Tandilia en la región pampeana argentina durante la transición ...

Quartz crystal is one the most ?requently encountered lithic raw materials recorded atlatest-Pleistocene through early-Holocene sites between 31° S and 34° S in Chile (Figure1). This abundance has also been noted at other ...

The use of high-quality rocks and heat-treatment by hunter-gatherers during the initial exploration and colonization of America has been emphasized by different authors. Here we present the case of the Southern End of the ...

Fishtail points (FTP) related to the terminal Pleistocene peopling of the South American continent present morphological, technological and functional variability. We discuss a collection of FTP recovered from central east ...