Northwest European Origins of North America's Maritime Archaic

Northwest European Origins of North America's Maritime Archaic

Tools kits of the Maritime Peoples in Northwest Europe and North East North America are identical.

Transatlantic Contacts of Primitive Man, Eastern Canada and Northwestern Russia, F. Ridley. 

   “For several years, similarities between the Archaic implement complex of the St. Lawrence Valley of north-eastern North American and those of the Atlantic and Arctic cultures of northwestern Europe have been recognized. The Atlantic culture dated from a period of 5,000 B.c. To 2,500 B.C. And the North American Archaic dated approximately;y 3,000 to 1,000 B.C., made common use of the polished gouge, polished celt, ground slate knives and ground slate projectile points. The Arctic culture of Scandinavia, succeeded the Atlantic culture, continued use of these implements and added the mortuary custom of covering the body with red paint, a custom common in the northeastern North America Archaic cultures.