Fishtail projectile points are the earliest widespread projectile type in South America, and
share chronology and techno-morphology with Clovis, the oldest North American projectile …

Abstract In the 1970s, Paul Martin proposed that big game hunters armed with fluted
projectile points colonized the Americas and drove the extinction of megafauna. Around fifty …

Clovis fluted points are deemed efficient weapon tips for hunting large game, including
Pleistocene proboscideans. However, experimental and archaeological studies cast doubt …

South America is the continent with the largest amount of megafauna extinctions at the end
of the Pleistocene (∼ 50 genera), but the empirical evidence of megafauna exploitation by …

Clovis projectile points are found in association with mammoths and other proboscideans at
multiple sites from across much of North America. The conventional, and arguably …

Our article “On the efficacy of Clovis fluted points for hunting proboscideans”(Eren et al.,
2021), sought to assess whether these stone points were, as conventional wisdom had it …

ABSTRACT In Late Pleistocene North America colonizing hunter-gatherers knapped and
used Clovis fluted projectile points. During their expansion the size and shape of Clovis …

The projectile points known as Fishtail or Fell represent a specific design associated with the
earliesthunter-gatherers of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in South America. Brazil was …

Recent evaluation of the use of Pleistocene megafauna by Clovis hunter-gatherers has
suggested that a small number of reliable associations between Clovis artifacts and the …

Fishtail or Fell projectile points constitute a specific design associated with early hunter-
gatherers at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in many parts of South America, especially …