Bridging the Gap
An Updated Overview of Clovis across Middle America and its Techno-Cultural Relation with Fluted Point Assemblages from South America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21215005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georges A Pearson (0000-0001-7617-2173, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 203-230 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PaleoAmerica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2055-5563 • E-ISSN: 2055-5571 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/20555563.2017.1328953 |
| OpenAlex | W2732455261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 101 |
This paper presents the results of technological and morphological analyses carried out on fluted point collections from North, Central, and South America. Technological similarities support a Clovis demic expansion at least as far as Venezuela. The presence of the fluting technique on various types of projectiles in northern South America suggests that this area may have been a zone of technological innovation/reorganization or human contact where ideas and possibly populations fused and merged. Moreover, numerous similarities between Central American lanceolate points and Clovis assemblages from the Gulf region of the United States indicate that a cultural network may have existed along the now submerged Atlantic coast
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