INVESTIGADORES
MARTINEZ Jorge Gabriel
artículos
Título:
Breakage patterns on fishtail projectile points: experimental and archaeological cases
Autor/es:
WEITZEL, CELESTE; FLEGENHEIMER, NORA; MARTÍNEZ, JORGE G.; COLOMBO, MARIANO
Revista:
Ethnoarchaeology
Editorial:
W. S. Maney & Son Ltd
Referencias:
Año: 2014 vol. 6 p. 81 - 102
ISSN:
1944-2890
Resumen:
Fishtail projectile points, also known as Fell 1, are dated between 11,000 and9,500 14C yr B.P. in South and Central America and have been traditionallyconsidered diagnostic of the early peopling of the continent. In this paper,experimental observations of impact breakage patterns on fishtail projectilepoint replicas are compared with archaeological points from the Cerro ElSombrero Cima site, in the Argentinian pampas, which exhibit a highbreakage ratio and suggest that impact was a major cause of breakage in theassemblage. The position of these fractures is also briefly compared topatterns described by J. Bird (1969) for fishtail projectile points from Ecuadorand Southern Chile.
