Early Holocene Cultural Diversity in Central America: Comment on Prufer et al. (2019) “Linking Late Paleoindian Stone Tool Technologies and Populations in North, Central and South America”

ABSTRACT

A recent publication by Keith Prufer and colleagues based on new data from southern Belize defines a “Lowe complex” and seeks to relate these finds to Late Paleoindian technologies in North and South America. This review corrects some parts of the record as presented by Prufer et al.

KEYWORDS:

• Central America
• early Holocene
• Lowe points
• preceramic

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Drs. Catherine Jalbert and Thomas Hester, and to an anonymous reviewer for reading this reply and providing helpful editorial and substantive comments. I appreciate the Grant McCall’s efforts to make space for this comment.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes on contributor

Dr. Jon C. Lohse received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2001 with a specialization in Maya archaeology. He has conducted research into the preceramic periods in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico ranging from Late Archaic to Early Paleoindian since 1992.