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• TITLE: Fishtail Projectile Points from South America: The Brazilian Record

  AUTHORS: Daniel Loponte, Mirian Carbonera, Romina Silvestre

  KEYWORDS: Fishtail Projectile Points, Paleoindian, South America, Brazil, Pleistocene-Holocene Transition

  JOURNAL NAME: Archaeological Discovery, Vol.3 No.3, June 5, 2015

  ABSTRACT: The projectile points known as Fishtail or Fell represent a specific design associated with the earliest hunter-gatherers of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in South America. Brazil was traditionally considered as a marginal area of their distribution because in the past there were only a small number of findings known, often inadequately documented. In this paper we present a general and unified overview of the Brazilian record, including previously unpublished metric, technological and stylistic features. Also, we report on new findings of fishtail points in order to expand the amount of information currently available. Some issues related to these records are also evaluated by comparing them with data from the Uruguayan plains and the Argentinean pampas. The general picture that emerges after this analysis shows a growing record of fishtail projectile points in southern Brazil, demonstrating a significant presence of these early paleo-South American populations.