Not only flaked artifacts in early Pampean lithic assemblages (Argentina).

NATALIA MAZZIA; NORA FLEGENHEIMER; DANIEL POIRÉ

Current Research in the Pleistocene

Texas A&M University

Lugar: Estados Unidos; Año: 2005 vol. 22 p. 25 - 28

8755-898X

The assemblages recovered from the early occupations at Cerro La China and Cerro El Sombrero localities, Argentina, consist mainly of flaked artifacts.They correspond to hunter-gatherer societies living in the Tandilia ranges in the Argentine Pampas and have been dated to the Pleistocene/Holocene transition (Flegenheimer and Zárate 1997). Great intersite variability has been described for the lithic assemblages recovered from the five excavated sites. One of the sites (El Sombrero Cima) also yielded pecked and ground tools such as small spheroids and an engraved discoidal stone (Flegenheimer and Zárate 1989). Apart from these artifacts, lithic assemblages include fragments of mineral pigments, clays, and rocks with abrasive properties. These remains have only been mentioned so far; they are found at both localities but are unevenly distributed among the sites.