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‘Fish-tail’ projectile points and megamammals: new evidence from Paso Otero 5 (Argentina)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gustavo A. Martínez
Gustavo A. Martínez*
Affiliation:
CONICET-INCUAPA, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UNCPBA, Del Valle 5737, (B7400JWI) Olavarría, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, gmartine@soc.unicen.edu.ar
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Abstract

The Paso Otero 5 site is located in the middle basin of the Quequén Grande river (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). This site is the first recorded Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological context in the grasslands of the Interserrana Bonaerense Area at which extinct megamammals and a ‘fish-tail’ projectile point have been recovered in association from buried soil dated to c. 10,200–10,450 BP.

Keywords

South AmericaPampean regionPalaeoindians‘fish-tail’ projectile pointsmegamammals
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News & Notes
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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 289 , September 2001 , pp. 523 - 528
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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