Talk:Red Paint People

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trans-Atlantic theory[edit]

I saw the mention in 6th millennium BC regarding these people, and was intrigued. Someone else came along real quick & removed the tidbit about the trans-Atlantic theory that seems to accompany these people. However, the person had made the change as I was reading references that asserted that the idea has indeed been debunked. I felt it appropriate to register them as "Pre-Columbian" and invite anyone knowledgeable to deal with Maritime Archaic.

Cwolfsheep 04:32, 29 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccuracy through 2006[edit]

Much of the article is currently inaccurate. I'm going to try to fix this. The references about "first discovery" are actually about "first discovery in Newfoundland". The first discovery at all was almost a century earlier, circa 1885, in Maine by a Harvard professor and his assistant Charles Willoughby. The Red Paint People name was given by Warren K. Moorehead. Scientists now refer to this culture as the Moorehead Phase of the Laurentian Tradition. It may take me a while to find a sufficient quantity of reliable sources to do a total rewrite. GRBerry 19:28, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

contrast with "red ochre people?"[edit]

are they the same? different? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.87.138.107 (talk) 17:02, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

text of possible use[edit]

I have removed the following text that was added to the "see also" section. It is unclear to me how much of it is relevant to the article subject, but I am pasting it here in case there is material that can be integrated into parts of the article.

This Tsunami occurred about 5000 b. c. It occurred during an earthquake that split off the eastern third of Mt. Tuck and diverted the Penobscot river from the western side of Mt. Tuck to it's present day course. This 400 plus ft. channel extends to Bucksport Maine and continues all the way to Silver lake underground. The townspeople even filled in a section to form an athletic field for the middle school. The absence of villages in the area is associated with this tsunami extending all the way to Stonington Maine. The Orrington Shell Mound is located several ft. above the present day waterline. But, during it's pre earthquake days, the river would have been much higher, thus touching the shell mound easily. The supposedly fictional native city of Norumbega would have been located along the pre earthquake eastern side of Mt. Tuck's Penobscot river course. Coinsedentally there is a e nearly enclosed mini-cove in the exact location described in pre 1509 maps. There are even caves located halfway up the cliff side inside this enclose. Just slightly higher than original river level. If this "is" the correct place, then explorer David Ingram "did" visit this underground dwelling, believed to have been occupied 7000 plus years ago. It appears that natives living in the area pre 16th century didn't differentiate between "old" Penobscot and new. Perhaps proof that this so can only be proven by going there, either by reppeling down from above, or getting through quicksand like swamp (river bed) at base.

--Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 21:53, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]