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      Redating Fell's Cave, Chile and the Chronological Placement of the Fishtail Projectile Point

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      American Antiquity
      Society for American Archaeology

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          Fell's Cave lies near the Magellan Straits of South America's Southern Cone. This was the first site to provide evidence of a late Pleistocene occupation of South America, and it is the site where the Fishtail projectile point type was defined. Previous radiocarbon ages from Fell's Cave on charcoal samples from three hearths in the late Pleistocene artifact-bearing levels yielded dates ranging from ca. 11,000 to 10,100 radiocarbon years before present. New radiocarbon dates on curated charcoal samples from these same hearths yield revised ages of ca. 10,800 to 10,400 radiocarbon years before present. These new dates from Fell's Cave agree well with ages from other South American sites in the Southern Cone with Fishtail points and show that the Fishtail projectile point was made from ca. 10,850 to 10,300 radiocarbon years before present or ca. 12,800 to 12,100 calibrated years before present.

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          La Cueva de Fell se encuentra cerca del Estrecho de Magallanes del Cono Sur de Sudamérica. Este fue el primer sitio para proporcionar evidencia de una ocupación Pleistoceno de Sudamérica y es el sitio donde se definió el tipo de punta de proyectil Cola de Pescado. Las edades radiocarbónicas en muestras anteriores de la Cueva de Fell en tres hogares de la época del Pleistoceno tardí0 arrojaron fechas que van desde ca. 11.000 a 10.100 años de radiocarbono antes del presente. Nuevas fechas radiocarbónicas en muestras de carbón curadas de estos mismox Hogares rindieron edades revisadas de ca. 10.800 a 10.400 años de radiocarbono antes del presente. Estas nuevasfechas de la Cueva de Fell concuerdan bien con las fechas de otros sitios Sudamericanos en el Cono Sur con puntas proyectiles Cola de Pescado y muestran que el proyectil Cola de Pescado se hizo durante ca. 10.850 a 10.300 años de radiocarbono antes delpresente o ca. 12.800 a 12.100 años calibrados antes del presente.

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                Journal
                American Antiquity
                Am. antiq.
                Society for American Archaeology
                0002-7316
                2325-5064
                April 2015
                January 20 2017
                April 2015
                : 80
                : 2
                : 376-386
                Article
                10.7183/0002-7316.80.2.376
                ea9b81a3-7d6d-4ece-b9c5-55711c26eb41
                © 2015

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