TITLE:
The First Paleoindian Fishtail Point Find in Salta Province, Northwestern Argentina
AUTHORS:
Claudio J. Patané Aráoz, Hugo G. Nami
KEYWORDS:
Fishtail Points; Lithic Technology; South America; Nothwestern Argentina
JOURNAL NAME:
Archaeological Discovery,
Vol.2 No.2,
March
26,
2014
ABSTRACT: Fishtail or Fell projectile points represent an excellent marker to know the presence of earliest
hunter-gatherers populations living during the end of the Pleistocene and its transition to the
Holocene. They are widespread in many places along Central and South America. However, there
are certain areas with elusive occurrence. Adding new information on the continental and regional
distributions of this paleo South American artefact, this paper reports a detailed morphological
and technological study of the first fishtail point found in the Salta province, Northwestern Argentina.