From khann@hitchhiker.ca Mon Dec 7 12:28:00 1998 Path: brain!torn!garnet.nbnet.nb.ca!not-for-mail From: khann Newsgroups: soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.nordic Subject: Re: Red Paint peoples? Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 10:30:02 -0400 Organization: NBTel Internet Lines: 23 Message-ID: <366BE66A.6F1E@hitchhiker.ca> References: <749rb5$lcq$2@brain.npiec.on.ca> <74gbai$oen$2@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: nbtel4-125.nbtel.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: brain soc.culture.canada:223511 soc.culture.nordic:128125 Jorma Kypp| wrote: > > This one part of "Timeline of Canadian history, Part 1" has > been x-posted also to s.c.nordic because of the issue.. > > Foxtaur (spam.foxtaur.spam@spam.warren.kill.com.spam) wrote: > > c. 1900 BC: The Red Paint peoples, who live on the banks of Maine's > > Penobscot River, spread red ochre over their dead and their grave > > offerings. > > This is what makes me astonished, how come so late? In Nordic countries > this habit was known already at least 5000 B.C.?? > Likely because the aboriginal peoples of North-Eastern North America were in an arrested state of development until they reached their eventual tribal areas. It is a long walk from the Bering Strait to the Penobscot River and it took quite some time to get there, particularly since the wandering tribes didn't have any idea where they were going. Once they arrived and became more settled, ritual practices would become increasingly complex with the passage of time. Remember, at the time of the European colonization the North-Eastern Amerindian cultures were still largely Neolithic - intelligent humans living with a very low level of technology.