Rethinking Early Objects and Landscapes in the Southern Cone: Fishtail Point Concentrations in the Pampas and Northern Patagonia

FLEGENHEIMER, NORA; MIOTTI, LAURA; MASSIA, NATALIA

Paleoamerican Odyssey

TAMU , Univ. Press

Lugar: Santa Fe, Texas; Año: 2013; p. 359 - 376

According to our analysis Cerro El Sombrero and Cerro Amigo Oeste exhibit similar features regarding objects and landscapes. Both hilltops were chosen for their panoramic view and as spaces to maintain hunting equipment; at both, broken fishtail projectile points as well as other artifacts, including discoidal stones and small spheres, were discarded. Based on the assumption that past selections of objects and landscape, were socially significant, we propose that people living in Patagonia and the Pampas during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition shared cultural meanings and had more in common than technical knowledge and design.