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The Origin and Dispersion of the Bow in the Andes (16–37°S) Based on a Controlled Database of Projectile Point Metrics (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present a discriminant metric study of stone projectile points (n=422) from 21 archaeological sites in the Andes of South America (16–37°S). We make a critical use of comparative datasets, which suggest that darts may have been smaller than previously thought. We assess the use-life of each point and tie them to reliable chronological sequences, in...