From jorma@jytko.jyu.fi Mon Dec 7 12:27:53 1998 Path: brain!torn!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.algonet.se!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!newsfeed1.funet.fi!mordred.cc.jyu.fi!jytko.jyu.fi!jorma From: jorma@jytko.jyu.fi (Jorma Kypp|) Newsgroups: soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.nordic Subject: Red Paint peoples? Date: 7 Dec 1998 10:40:18 GMT Organization: Martian Ereb Lines: 32 Message-ID: <74gbai$oen$2@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> References: <749rb5$lcq$2@brain.npiec.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: jytko.jyu.fi NNTP-Posting-User: jorma X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: brain soc.culture.canada:223498 soc.culture.nordic:128116 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. 40,000-30,000 BC: Prehistoric hunters migrate from Asia across the > Bering strait land bridge to settle North America. --> > c. 9,000 BC: Native peoples are living along the Eramosa River near what > is now Guelph, Ontario. -- > 8,000 BC: Ice Age ending. Rising waters cover Bering land bridge. -- > 5000 BC: Native peoples have spread into what is now Northern Ontario and > Southeastern Quebec. -- > c. 2700 BC: Copper implements and ornaments are fashioned by the "Old > Copper" culture of Wisconsin from ore found in the area around Lake > Superior. > 2000 BC: Inuit peoples begin to move into what is now the Northwest > Territories. -- > 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.?? Jorma Kyppö Laukaa Finland