Paleoamericans in Northeast Argentina

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.

A Fossil Bone of a Giant Ground Sloth from the Last Millennium of the Pleistocene: New Data from Salto Department, Uruguay

“…The date also agrees with the remarkable record of FPs existing in Southern Brazil, NE Argentina, and Uruguay (e.g. Bosch et al, 1980, Nami, 2013, 2020Loponte et al, 2015Loponte et al, , 2016Loponte & Carbonera, 2017;among others), whose examples are illustrated in Figure 6. It is worth mentioning that nearby the Itaperibí Grande creek, it is claimed that other types of projectile points belonging to different "techno-complexes" overlap the time of the FPs from other South American areas (Suárez, 2017).…”

Luminescence Dating of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sediments in Uruguay

“…Fishtail points have been reported from south-central Mexico/Central America to southernmost South America (e.g., Bell 1960; Bird and Cooke 1978; Cassiano and Alvarez Palma 2007:Figure 10; Flegenheimer et al 2014; Loponte et al 2015; Mayer-Oakes 1986; Nami 2014a, 2016, 2017a; Ranere and Cooke 1995) but are most common in the southern cone. The densest concentrations have been found in Uruguay, in the Buenos Aires province of east-central Argentina (Flegenheimer et al 2014:Figure 21.1), and in southern Brazil (Loponte and Carbonera 2017; Loponte et al 2015, 2016).…”

“…In the high-energy Uruguay River basin, the Laranjito and El Tigre sites yielded Umbu projectile points of diverse shapes (Hilbert 1985;Miller 1987;Suárez 2017). They are coeval with or later than fishtail points, which are also common finds in the area (Capeletti 2011;Castro and Terranova 2015;Hilbert 1991;Loponte and Carbonera 2017;Loponte et al 2015Loponte et al , 2016Mujica 1995;Nami 2007Nami , 2017aSuárez 2015Suárez , 2017. Complex alluvial stratigraphy, not to mention vagaries in typology, make interpretations difficult (Butzer 2008;Ferring 2000;Nami 2013:16).…”

New Paleoindian Finds, Further Fell Points Data, and Technological Observations from Uruguay: Implications for the Human Peopling in Southeastern South America

“…One of its densest concentrations was found in its mid-central portion, north and south of La Plata River (Nami, 2016a). North of this estuary, there have been mostly surficial finds in an area currently occupied by the territories of northeastern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil; and to the south in several stratigraphic sites in Buenos Aires province, in east-central Argentina (Flegenheimer & Weitzel, 2017;Nami, 2016a;Suárez, 2015;Loponte et al, 2015;Loponte et al, 2016;Loponte & Carbonera, 2017). As part of this large geographical area, recent investigations performed throughout Uruguay have added new information to the discussion of its oldest human occupations.…”