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Further Comment on the Finds at El Jobo, Venezuela

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ĭrving Rouse  and
José M. Cruxent
Ĭrving Rouse
Affiliation:
Yale University New Haven, Conn
José M. Cruxent
Affiliation:
Museo de Ciencias Naturales and Universidad Central Caracas, Venezuela
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In the recent discussion of finds of paleo-Indian type at El Jobo, Venezuela, comparisons were made with other material in the Caribbean region and in North America (Cruxent and Rouse 1956). Turning in the opposite direction, to the rest of South America, we find that the El Jobo projectile points show a rather marked resemblance to those of the Ayampitín site in central Argentina, if we may judge from the drawings published by Rex González (1952, Pl. 13). The Ayampitín points, like those of El Jobo, are predominantly leaf shaped, but with a minority of stemmed forms. The two are relatively crudely rechipped on both surfaces, finely retouched along the edges, and in some cases serrated. The Ayampitín points are of quartz; the El Jobo specimens, of quartzite.

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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , April 1957 , pp. 412
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1957

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