Camden tool could be 5,000 years old

VillageSoup.com (Greater Portland Region, Maine) ^ | Oct 12, 2005 | Lynda Clancy

[SunkenCiv]

Bruce Borque, an archeologist at the Maine State Museum who is well acquainted with the Red Paint People... visited Rainville and Mannion last week and wondered if the tool had been left behind at the site by early Red Paint boatbuilders, who had hiked up from the shore to find suitable trees from which to make canoes. He estimated the tool, used for gouging, to be 5,000 years old.

[SunkenCiv]

They hiked up from the shore to find material to build canoes. What they were doing on the shore in the first place remains a mystery. ;')

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[xcamel]

Pffft.

I have a hard limestone/chert tool from my own yard that is **at least** that old.

Dates back to very early Algonkin

[N. Theknow]

There's no tool like an old tool.

[xcamel]

I'd post a picture, but the "antiquities gestapo" take stuff like this very seriously, and mount assaults to relieve people (unwashed commoners) of items like this.

[ApplegateRanch]

Camden? Dah goiy is nutz. Joizey City ain't even that old, let alone Camden...but somma dah voters are a'least that old.

They are believed to have occupied Penobscot Bay and the Maine Coast from 4,000 to possibly 8,000 years ago. They are called Red Paint because of the red iron oxide associated with their graves. According to some historians, identical cultures have been found in Norway.

To maintain PC values, are they saying Native Americans discovered Norway?

"From a craftsman point of view, you don't just drop your tool," he said, especially one that probably took a week to make.

Guess he's never watched a good contemporary knapper at work. If it took a week to make a single tool, the tribe couldn't afford to feed the guy. The article not only doesn't have a photo, it never describes the tool, but I can't fathom a "tool used for gouging" being very complex. It isn't like chipping out the screw-threads for attaching the nozzel to the air-alcohol rocket motors they used on their canoes....

Additionally, the site lies above the Goose River, and 5,000 years ago, the climate here was warmer by a few degrees.

...but not GLOBALLY warmer! No, never!

[Yo-Yo]

"From a craftsman point of view, you don't just drop your tool," he said, especially one that probably took a week to make.

Sure you do. From a craftsman point of view, if you drop it and break it, take it back to Sears and they'll replace it for free!

[SunkenCiv]

:')

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[blam]

"With regard to the coastal peoples of South East North America, two final migrations must also be noted.
In my previous survey I mentioned that the Red Paint peoples showed up on Canada’s northern east coast at a very early time. Their economy was ocean based and seems to have relied upon the harvesting of a flightless bird which is now extinct, possibly as a result of this harvesting, and it is possible that this also was true for mammoths, sloths, etc... Amazingly, these peoples’ culture shows affinities with contemporaneous northern European cultures.

[xcamel]

Oh, and the sea was about 100-150 feet lower than now, too.