Early Hunter in the Terra Firme Rainforest: Stemmed Projectile Points from the Curuá Goldmines

Roosevelt, Anna C.; Douglas, John E.; Amaral, Anderson Marcio; Silveira, Maura Imázio da; Barbosa, Carlos; Barreto, Mauro Limeira; Silva, Wanderley Souza da; Brown, Linda J.

doi:10.18542/amazonica.v1i2.296

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“…As these cases suggest, these points often replace FPP implying some form of interregional consistent stylistic and technological transition. Barbed bifaces have also been found in undated but likely early Holocene contexts in lower CA including at Madden Lake, Panama [44], and unusual fluted and stemmed varieties from the Curua Basin, Brazil [91], as well as the Rio Magdalena and Region del Jobo, Venezuela [92] and Pay Paso, Uruguay [93]. The occurrence and dating of barbed bifaces place this technocomplex as an earlier phenomenon in SA than in NA and suggests a possible source for the technological knowledge related to Lowe complex bifaces.…”

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Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America

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From the perspective of Central and South America, the peopling of the New World was a complex process lasting thousands of years and involving multiple waves of Pleistocene and early Holocene period immigrants entering into the neotropics. These Paleoindian colonists initially brought with them technologies developed for adaptation to environments and resources found in North America. As the ice age ended across the New World people adapted more generalized stone tools to exploit changing environments and resources. In the neotropics these changes would have been pronounced as patchy forests and grasslands gave way to broadleaf tropical forests. We document a late Pleistocene/early Holocene stone tool tradition from Belize, located in southern Mesoamerica. This represents the first endogenous Paleoindian stone tool technocomplex recovered from well dated stratigraphic contexts for Mesoamerica. Previously designated Lowe, these artifacts share multiple features with contemporary North and South American Paleoindian tool types. Once hafted, these bifaces appear to have served multiple functions for cutting, hooking, thrusting, or throwing. The tools were developed at a time of technological regionalization reflecting the diverse demands of a period of pronounced environmental change and population movement. Combined stratigraphic, technological, and population paleogenetic data suggests that there were strong ties between lowland neotropic regions at the onset of the Holocene.

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Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America

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“…However, like the management and cultivation, this technology was, most likely, developed by populations of Tropical Culture, making the Amazon, among the regions of the American continents, a pioneer in its production. This argument is supported by the ancient dating's related to ceramics, which reach more than 6,000 years BP in different parts of the Amazon and therefore are not initially associated with a sedentary lifestyle (Roosevelt et al, 2009;Neves & Heckenberger, 2019); in fact, just as the domestication of plants is not with agriculture either (Fausto & Neves, 2018). On the other hand, the diffusion of the pottery industry in the Amazon is situated in a period of entropy, corresponding to the transition between the Tropical Culture and the Antropical Culture, which took place in some millennium of the Middle Holocene, when the cultivation of domesticated plants began to be associated with a sedentary lifestyle (Magalhães, 2016;Magalhães et al, 2018Magalhães et al, , 2019.…”

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The pristine and devenir in long-term indigenous history in the Amazon

Magalhães

2023

Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Ciênc. hum.

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In discussions of the Amazon’s lengthy indigenous history, the narrative that considers temporal landmarks generally remains tied to Western chronology. In other words, although most researchers consider indigenous history to be an important reality, the very epistemological scope of the human sciences forces indigenous temporalities to fit into the chronological paradigms of the west. To avoid this epistemological pitfall, historical time must be narrated according to the emergence and duration of events, going beyond their pristine origins and seeking their devenir instead of manifestations of these events. Based on the work of authors such as Bergson, Deleuze and Braudel, in this essay we propose that indigenous history in the Amazon unfolds along two structuring processes that evolved over time according to the persistence and resilience of this history in the proper place for Amerindian social and cultural experiences.

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“…Entire cutting tools of flaked stone were cached in the cave, whereas only broken points were left there. Whole points, however, are common finds at rapids in the interfluves, where migrating fish pass, however (Roosevelt et al, 2009). In San Isidro and other Colombian sites, also, whole cutting tools of ground or flaked stone, such as axes or adzes/limaces, were left behind with mostly broken flaked tools (Santos Vecino et al, 2015;Gnecco, 2000, pp.…”

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Method and Theory of Early Farming: The Orinoco and Caribbean Coasts of South America

Roosevelt¹

2016

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The early and mid 20th century was a time of great interest in the rise of agriculture and its role in the evolution of civilizations societies in particular environments. Late 20th century efforts to reconstruct the nature and history of prehistoric farming societies in the northern lowlands of South America ranged from expansive hypotheses to regional case studies using archaeobotanical technologies then available. Since 2000, a large number of regional studies using expanded and refined methods have produced broadly interesting results. Approaches from the fields of geography and earth sciences are being recruited increasingly. The resulting empirical evidence does shed light on aspects of the history of human use of some plants but, as always, has raised more questions than it solved. Many of the problems interpreting the processual and evolutionary significance of these findings are methodological ones. This article reviews what seem to be the most important methodological and interpretive issues of this area of research for the tropical lowlands (up to c. 1500 m a.s.l) of northern South America.

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Early Hunter in the Terra Firme Rainforest: Stemmed Projectile Points from the Curuá Goldmines

Cited by 7 publications

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Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America

Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America

The pristine and devenir in long-term indigenous history in the Amazon

Method and Theory of Early Farming: The Orinoco and Caribbean Coasts of South America

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