Additional Records for Deepening the Knowledge of Fell Points from Southeastern South America

ABSTRACTThe research advances in Fell points show significant morpho-technological and dimensional variations. We provide additional data on unreported specimens coming from three countries located in southeastern South America. Dealing with the repairing of the stems, we discuss a topic barely addressed in this iconic PaleoAmerican artifact. These issues give us a greater depth of understanding of the life histories of the early lithic assemblages employed by the hunter-gatherers living during the last millennium of the Pleistocene in this part of the world.KEYWORDS: Fell pointslithic analysisvariability‌projectile point life historysoutheastern South America AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the authorities of the Museu ao Ar Livre Princesa Isabel de Orleans, especially to Idemar Ghizzo, as well as Museo Granja Colonia Arenas and Mr. Buchinger, S. Bálsamo, and L. Balles for allowing us to study their collections.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsHugo G. NamiDr. H. G. Nami is a senior researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For many year he was also an associated researcher at the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Wa. D.C. He is a former research fellow of the Center for the Study of the Early Man (Orono, Maine), National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution, Wa. D.C.), Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University, Wa. D.C.), and other institutions. He has received grants by CONICET, Fulbright Commission, National Geographic Society, Wenner-Gren for Anthropological research, among others. Research interests include: hunter-gatherer archaeology, peopling of the New World, Experimental archaeology, archaeological theory, epistemology, paleomagnetism. On these subjects he has extensively published in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.Daniel LoponteDr. Daniel Loponte is a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His research focuses on the archaeology of Eastern South America, material cultural, paleoenvironmental studies and cultural evolution.Mirian CarboneraDr. Mirian Carbonera is a researcher at the Universidade de la Comuna de Chapecó, Brazil. Her studies focuses on the archaeology of Eastern South America, material cultural, paleoenvironmental studies, cultural evolution and heritage management.