"An Archaic Period Stemmed and Barbed Point from Tenam Puente, Chiapas, Mexico"

Recent publication in journal Arqueologia Iberoamericana published by Dr. Elizabeth Paris and colleagues (Roberto López Bravo, and Gabriel Lalo Jacinto) describes a unique find near Tenam Puente, Mexico. 

The article describes an Archaic period stemmed and barbed point, discovered at the ancient Maya city of Tenam Puente, Chiapas, Mexico. The projectile point was mixed into the rubble fill used to construct a large Late Classic to Early Postclassic period (ca. AD 800-1000) plaza in the monumental zone. The point bears a strong resemblance to Lowe points (12,000—9300 CalBP) recovered from Belize, and Pedernales-style points discovered elsewhere in Mesoamerica (8700 CalBP). Generally, these types of points are quite rare; most of the known examples have been found in Belize. Previous studies of the Lowe points from Belize suggest that they were multipurpose dart points (used with an atlatl) that were also used as knives. It is the second point of this style identified from highland Chiapas to date. The field research was part of the "Economic Networks of Tenam Puente" Proyect, co-directed by Elizabeth Paris (UCalgary), Roberto Lopez Bravo (UNICACH), and Gabriel Lalo Jacinto (INAH-Chiapas), and involving students from Canada and Chiapas, Mexico, and members of the local community. The excavations were funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, with permission from the Mexican government (INAH). 

Full article can be downloaded here: http://www.laiesken.net/arqueologia/pdf/2019/AI4307.pdf