ELS1, a Fishtail Projectile-Point Site from Central

ANDRÉS G. LAGUENS; EDUARDO A. PAUTASSI; GISELA M. SARIO; ROXANA CATTÁNEO

Current Research in Pleistocene

Center for the Study of the First Americans.

Lugar: Texas, USA; Año: 2007 p. 55 - 57

8755-898X

Since 2001 our team archaeologists, bioanthropologists, geologists, and paleontologists has been carrying out a project focused on the peopling of the Sierras of Córdoba and San Luis ranges, northwest of the Pampas in central Argentina, during the Pleistocene-Holocene periods. Until recently, the available information on the earliest occupations referred to sites with a technology of foliate projectile points (known as Ayampitín) dated to 8000 (González 1960) and supposedly linked to Andean origins. A review of sites discovered in the 19th and 20th centuries with possible associations of megafauna, lithics, and charcoal, as well as data available on early Holocene settlements in the adjoining regions (Flegenheimer and Bayón 1996; Martínez 1997; García 2003; Nuñez et al. 1994), allow us to hypothesize an earlier peopling of the zone, from the Pampas.