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Encyclopedia > Red Paint People

The Red Paint People are a culture believed to be a Maritime Archaic, Pre-Columbian culture indigenous to the New England and Labrador regions of North America, existing between 6th millennium BC and 1st millennium AD. In archaeology, the Maritime Archaic period is a period lasting from approximately 7000 BC into modern times. ... The term Pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the New World in the era before significant European influence. ... The states marked in red show New England. ... Labrador (also Coast of Labrador) is a region of Atlantic Canada. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... During the 6th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from the Balkans to Italy and Eastern Europe and from Mesopotamia to Egypt. ... In the Gregorian calendar, the 1st millennium is the period of one thousand years that commenced with the year 1 Anno Domini. ...


Maritime Archaic Indians

The Maritime Archaic Indians (MAI), were a group of American Indians who hunted and fished the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland for more than 2,000 years.


The Maritime Archaic culture was discovered more than 30 years ago by James A. Tuck of Memorial University of Newfoundland after his excavation of 56 elaborate burials at Port au Choix, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.


Interred between 4500 and 3200 B.P., the dead--along with various grave goods were covered in red ochre, earning them the name "The Red Paint People."


Tool kits contained in the burials pointed to a lifestyle dependent on the deep sea. [1]


Technology

The Red Paint People apparently possessed tools and craft that allowed them to perform deepwater fishing and intercoastal travel more advanced than their peers of the era. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water. ...


In the 1970's amateur archaeologist Douglas Byers, summer resident of Blue Hill, ME, found a Norse coin at the Goddard property in Brooklin, ME. at a previously discovered Red Paint People burial site.


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Introduction (252 words)
The Red Paint People, considered one of New England's earliest archeological controversies, lived over 4,000 years ago and they had a cultural impact throughout Northeastern North America.
The Red Ochre stain mix in the burials is why they were called the Red Paint people.
The Red Paint People were initially identified, and named, as a result of the red ocher stained artifacts which were contained in various prehistoric burial sites.
Seacoast NH History - Prehistoric Era - Red Paint People (566 words)
Evidence of the Red Paint People was found throughout the nineteenth century as groups of stone artifacts (for example, gouges or woodworking tools, fishing plummets, flaked stone knives and spearheads of ground slate) in deposits of bright red ocher (iron oxide powder).
The "Red Paint People" were initially only recognized from their cemetery sites and these are now more commonly referred to as the "Moorehead burial tradition" in archeological journal.
This geological evidence was expanded upon with the suggestion that the ocean side habitation areas of the people may have succumbed to tidal waves that resulted from violent earthquakes that caused the land to sink.
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