Maritime Archaic

Despite the UNESCO designation possibly helping put this far-flung location on the map, thanks to a Norwegian explorer and his archaeologist wife, who located the site in 1961 with the help of a local, visiting this part of the far north peninsula is nothing new.

The archaeological records dictate that the first indigenous group to come here were the Maritime Archaic people 5,000 years ago, with their ancestors arriving in Labrador 9,000 years ago.

Following them were the Grosswater people, the Dorset people, and a group called the Proto-Innu, who were the ancestors of the now-extinct Newfoundland Beothuk.

What these groups shared in common, though, is that none of them lived at Liancy Meadows permanently.

And then you have the Hopi and the Anasazi star cities in the southwest region.

And you have the maritime archaic 9000 year old culture from Labrador to Maine and Massachusetts that hunted for swordfish and cod in deep waters, you know, six, seven, eight thousand years ago that you never freaking hear of.

So, you know, what I found is that.

Archaeology has done such a pathetic, incompetent, and misguided job at telling us about the past of the United States, and it's a travesty that this information is not taught in school.

But.

I don't know exactly the nature of the tablets, but they have writing on, this bizarre writing on them, a lot of them.

And I'll say the Maritime Archaic, who's 9,000 years old, their tools and hair combs and geometric designs on their artifacts are virtually identical to the ones you find in Norway and Denmark and And, you know, back 9,000 years ago, and the thought is that there was a cross-cultural connection, which I certainly believe.

The same kinds of megalithic structures you find up there, you find on the East Coast of America, too, but they're called root cellars and farmer's clearing piles and things like that because...