IGEBA   23946
INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS BASICAS, APLICADAS Y AMBIENTALES DE BUENOS AIRES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Paleoamerican Artifacts from Cerro Largo, Northeastern Uruguay
Autor/es:
NAMI, H. G.
Revista:
Paleo America
Editorial:
W. S. Maney & Son Ltd.
Referencias:
Lugar: College Station; Año: 2015 vol. 1 p. 288 - 292
ISSN:
2055-5563
Resumen:
A research program directed at deepening the knowledge and understanding of Paleo-American ?Fishtail? points is being carried out. In pursuit of this goal, lithic remains from Cerro Largo Department, northeastern Uruguay were examined. One of the samples comes from Paso Centurión, a surface site that has yielded the greatest number of Fishtail points in Uruguay. There, and at the Paso Taborda site, several examples were reworked as scraping tools, constituting a peculiar case of stone-tool recycling and reclaiming by post-Pleistocene hunter-gatherers. The examined collection sheds new light on regional lithic assemblages, stone-tool use, and the early colonization of southeastern South America.