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  • Early hunter-gatherers in the Americas: perspectives from central Brazil

  • Renato Kipnis
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 72 / Issue 277 / September 1998
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 581-592
    Print publication:
    September 1998

  • There is a preconception among American archaeologists that the late Pleistocene (c. 12,000-10,000 hap.) and early Holocene human occupation of the Americas would have had highly formalized and diagnostic technologies (Bryan 1986), as seen in bifacial fluted projectiles (Clovis and/or Folsom points) or Palaeoarctic microblades. This bias carries with it two presumptions which have no reason to exist:

    • Clovis and related industries had to be diffused throughout the Americas; and

    • there should be a ‘big-game hunting’ horizon in South America.