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Evidence Found Dating Back Over 12,000 Years, The Details May Surprise You

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Between Twelve and twelve thousand, five hundred years ago, the ancestors of modern-day  Native Americans used tobacco according to the latest archaeological surprise in Utah. This discovery moves back the date for man’s first smoke by approximately 9,000 years! The excavation, near Wishbone at the Great Salt Lake Desert, where the high sodium preserves sensitive fossils beautifully has yielded four charred seeds of a wild tobacco plant (Nicotiana rustica) in a small fireplace according to sciencenews,org and archaeologist Daron Duke of Far Western Anthropological Research Group in Henderson, Nev., and colleagues.

This amazing discovery completely resets the clock on mankind’s consumption of the tobacco plant and also establishes an interesting method for its use as well. Burning the plant in a fireplace or pit suggests a use profile similar to incense or a possible religious application. The site near Wishbone was a sprawling marshland at the time but the seeds likely came from plants gathered on the nearby mountainsides.

While it’s still unclear precisely how the early natives used the tobacco plant, whether for spiritual and medicinal purposes alone or also personal enjoyment, Duke told reporters that tobacco smoking cannot be ruled out. However, as ScienceNews points out:

“Wads of tobacco leaves, stems and other plant fibers may have been twisted into balls and chewed or sucked, with attached seeds spit out or discarded. Ancestors of Pueblo people in what’s now Arizona chewed wild tobacco between around 1,000 and 2,000 years ago.”

Hunting and Gathering, Not Yet Cultivation of The Surprise Tobacco

Early evidence of agriculturally “domesticated tobacco” from South American native tribes only dates to about 8,000 or so years ago, Duke and his team however suggest that different ancient native American populations may have come to the discovery at different points in their history.

 “Certain groups wound up domesticating particular [tobacco] species, typically alongside food crops,” he suggests.

While not rolled in leaf or smoked in pipes as we see today, this extremely early utilization of the plant shows that man’s love of tobacco stretches back through the ages of the New World to a time before the Romans. When the builders of the mysterious Göbekli Tepe and Hallan Çemi Tepesi, lived in the hillsides of Turkey, while Britain was still attached to Europe and the pagan Maglemosian peoples, builders of the North Yorkshire Star Carr site still lived. Glaciers still covered Canada and much of the northern US, extending as far south as New Hampshire. And in what is today Utah on the shores of Lake Bonneville, the remnant of which would later become the Great Salt Lake, we can imagine an ancient native American breathed deep the primeval version same smoke that we enjoy today, exhaled slowly, and smiled.

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