What is the significance of Red ochre... .?

Question

... regarding spiritual ceremonies and/or burial methods among the North American native Aboriginal peoples a couple thousand years ago?

Answer 1

Beyond what the first person said, they probably just used that because not much else provided as much of a source of the color pigment.

Answer 2

The association of ochre with burial indicates that the inhabitants had made the mental leap of associating the colored pigment with death. Such symbolic thought spurred human progress, allowing the development of sophisticated language and mathematics. The red ochre meant something to them, exactly what we do not know, but it is not inconceivable that they painted their dead with red ochre.

I have looked at tons of Archaeological sites and they all have one thing in common. No one really knows what the red ochre significance is. I looked at 7 different sites and they all have that in common, no one really knows the significance of red ochre at ancient burials. But read this articles, you will enjoy it I am sure. Civilizations all over the world have used Red ochre in burial rights for 100,000 years. The nearest thing I can come to an answer would be know in science as more of a hypothesis, but a readily accepted one in the scientific world. Thus, the presence of red ochre in some burials suggests the practice of contagious magic: the corpse had possibly been stained with the colour of blood in order to revitalize it.