Discovery Suggests Tobacco Was Used 12,300 Years Ago

[mikethompson]

Link to BBC article

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The finding makes the first known use of tobacco some 9,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers believe hunter-gatherers in the Great Salt Lake Desert may have sucked or smoked wads of the plant. Until now, the earliest evidence of tobacco use was a 3,300-year-old smoking pipe discovered in Alabama."

 

[Bluemonter]

Any evidence of hoarding limited edition tobacco back then?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

the earliest evidence of tobacco use was a 3,300-year-old smoking pipe discovered in Alabama."

Someone found it? Damn, now I can stop looking for that thing.

The finding makes the first known use of tobacco some 9,000 years earlier than previously thought.

I wonder if it was Captain Black, and was it still too wet?

 

[WVOldFart]

Beside the pipe was a lighter that wouldn't work. Damn somethings never change.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

"This suggests that people learned the intoxicant properties of tobacco relatively early in their time here rather than only with domestication and agriculture thousands of years later."

There are theories that Native American agriculture--growing corn, beans, gourds, etc.--developed out of tobacco cultivation, not the other way around.

 

[Ahi Ka]

There are theories that Native American agriculture--growing corn, beans, gourds, etc.--developed out of tobacco cultivation, not the other way around.

Just like the beer vs bread debate

 

[verporchting]

Probably considered safe from the deeming regs then?

 

[kcghost]

I believe this article is based on one from 2013 or 2015.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Link to BBC article

"
The finding makes the first known use of tobacco some 9,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers believe hunter-gatherers in the Great Salt Lake Desert may have sucked or smoked wads of the plant. Until now, the earliest evidence of tobacco use was a 3,300-year-old smoking pipe discovered in Alabama."

You don't say.?

12,000 Year old tobacco seeds found in the US :: General Pipe Smoking Discussion

a very cool find, combining two of my favorite hobbies hunting and tobacco. http://westerndigs.org/ice-age-hunting-camp-replete-with-bird-bones-and-tobacco-found-in-utah-desert/

pipesmagazine.com

Early Tobacco Use in America :: Tobacciana History

Scientific American article From a few tobacco seeds, they speculate that early Americans were smoking or chewing.

pipesmagazine.com

 

[olkofri]

 

[mso489]

FDA will probably find that those seeds were never packaged or taxed and thus come under the deeming regulations, and the museums where they are displayed will be fined and ordered to remove the seeds from the display case and turn them over to ATF agents.