The First Fishtail Point Find in Piauí State, Northeastern Brazil: Significance and Hypothesis
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Here we report a newly discovered Fishtail, or Fell 1, projectile-point type, from Coronel José Dias, southern Piauí, northeastern Brazil. It is an almost complete bifacial piece on light local silex. In Brazil, Fishtail points have not been previously reported in detail north of the 22° S parallel. Hence, this new evidence importantly establishes human occupation of extreme northeast of South America during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.
Source: PaleoAmerica
Institutions: Université Paris Nanterre, Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Mondes, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fundação Museu do Homem Americano
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3135823922