Archeological site on Ingonish Island dates back thousands of years

Cape Breton Post ^ | December 16th, 2010 | Rannie Gillis

[SunkenCiv]

Ronald Nash found two separate quarries on the island. The larger one was located on the relatively flat northwest side, facing the village of Ingonish, and provided 40 boxes of artifacts. The smaller site was under cliffs on the very steep northeast side, facing the ocean, and provided a smaller amount of material...

All of the evidence found indicates that both sites were quarries, and not the location of early villages. We know this because Nash found no animal bones, empty shells, or pottery fragments at either site, meaning that food was not cooked or eaten on location. Although these early Indians worked the quarry in the summer months, their main village was probably located on the mainland, more than likely close by in the Ingonish area.

...some of the items found during excavation... include: arrowheads, knives, spear points, primitive axes, sharp-edged circular and rectangular stones that were probably used for scraping animal hides, and an approximately six-inch long stone item that may have been a large knife, or possibly a harpoon blade.

According to Nash most of the items were made from a type of volcanic rock called rhyolite, which is as hard as steel... The rhyolite from Ingonish Island is also slightly magnetic... prehistoric quarry sites have also been found in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and mainland Nova Scotia... the Ingonish artifacts are slightly magnetic, and will be attracted to a simple magnet, while the other locally produced tools are not magnetic. What this also means is that 7,000 years ago there was physical contact between various Indian groups in the three Maritime Provinces. They were obviously visiting and trading with one another, only 3,000 years after the end of the last ice age.

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[JoeProBono]

Micmac Dress – Whycocomagh Cape Breton

[SunkenCiv]

Looks Sa’ami?

http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf088/sf088a01.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%27kmaq_hieroglyphic_writing#Classification

[JoeProBono]

Three Mi'kmaq women

[Fred Nerks]

National Anthropological Archives, Smithonian Institution, Washington - image dated 1865

[JoeProBono]

[Fred Nerks]

MICMAC THE LORD'S PRAYER (IN GERMAN)

source

[Natural Born 54]

It’s a spectacular island - around 84 acres. We are in real estate in Cape Breton and sold it a few years ago to some people who are perfect caretakers. Great people - Americans who fell in love with Ingonish and the island at first sight.

We went all over Ingonish Island taking photos and did a circumnavigation thanks to a friend and his commercial fishing boat.

Our collection of over 100 photos is here:

http://www.capebretonestates.com/land_ingonish.html

and here is an aerial map with clickable “X’s” that show photos taken in that location.

http://www.capebretonestates.com/land_ingonish_map.html

The owners loved the pics and let us keep them on our web site.

Also handled the sale of a 200 plus acre peninsular right across from the island on the Ingonish coast. It’s called Redhead. Photos here:

http://www.capebretonestates.com/land_redhead.html

And if you have time, check this place out, an amazing wilderness area privately owned by a lottery winner:

http://www.capebretonestates.com/land_polletts_cove.html

And this one we still have if you like waterfalls:

http://www.capebretonestates.com/land_egypt_falls_140.html

Cape Breton is so beautiful, I get carried away.....

[Fred Nerks]

Absolutely beautiful! I’ll take the one with the waterfall...

[Natural Born 54]

I went swimming in the pool and stood under the falls. It’s way away from civilization signs, too. It’s a challenge getting there. Wouldn’t have been too surprised to see a dinosaur step out of the woods for a drink. Magical place.

So’s this:

http://www.capebretonestates.com/land_island_point.html

[blam]

Check out the pointed hats in these pictures. Pointed hats are all over prehistoric Europe. Even the 4,000 year old Urumchi mummies have them.

Pointed Hats

"Pointed hats have been a distinctive item of headgear of a wide range of cultures throughout history. Though often suggesting an ancient Indo-European tradition, they were also traditionally worn by women of Lapland, the Japanese, the Mi'kmaq people of Atlantic Canada, and the Huastecs of Veracruz and Aztec (illustrated e.g. in Codex Mendoza). The Kabiri of New Guinea have the diba, a pointed hat glued together.[1]

[muawiyah]

The costume looks pretty Bolivian to me but that's because we have half a dozen Bolivian families in the neighborhood who put them on for parties.

That does not mean the style originated in Bolivia ~ just that it's still used by them.

Now, the hieroglyphics, poor Mr. Fell arrived in this world too soon ~ he missed out on the discoveries that the Sa'ami may well have made it to North America, North Africa, Central Asia and possibly other places as early as 14000 years ago.

Consequently when you discover a Micmac or other symbol carrying the same, or a cognate value as an Egyptian hieroglyphic, that doesn't mean an Egyptian visited the Micmacs. In fact, all it might mean is a Micmac or Bolivian dope dealer may have made it to Egypt (note: cocaine residue inside cells of Egyptian mummies from thousands of years ago demonstrate somebody did something eh).

Most of these symbols or hieroglyphs are derivative of the "module of design" implicit in human structure. "Full cup" or "handful" or "all" could very well have the same character arise in many societies over thousands of years. That'd be a bowl shape like a "cupped hand".

"I" or "myself" would always be an arm raised straight up overhead ~ like a first grader eager to answer a question.

[muawiyah]

TALL POINTED HATS ~ I disagree with the translation of the Eastern Turcic term “sakha” as the Western Turcic term “saka” ~ but the hats are an obvious invention for folks living in WINDY COLD country, or where it rains a lot. By extending the back of the hat down over the neck, they keep dryer and warmer, or at least dryer.

[ZULU]

And don’t forget the Coneheads.

[x_plus_one]

Lots of cone-headed mummies from ancient times..

[ZULU]

AHHHH!!! The Coneheads LIVE!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Natural Born 54!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fred Nerks!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!