Posted on 06/17/2018 4:21:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A study into the use of tobacco has yielded some interesting findings including dating the practice to around 4,000 years ago -- about 1,500 years older than previously thought. The study, "Evidence of Tobacco from a Late Archaic Smoking Tube Recovered from the Flint River site in southeastern North America", has been undertaken by various researchers and was led by Dr. Stephen B. Carmody , Troy University (Ala.) assistant professor of anthropology.
"For the past eight or nine years, I have been exploring pipe use, pipe-smoked plants, and the use of tobacco here in the eastern woodlands of North America," said Dr. Carmody. "We have made several interesting finds. Until recently, the earliest evidence for the use of tobacco was discovered in a pipe that was approximately 2,500 years old, dating to what we refer to as the Early Woodland Period."
He added, "One of my great interests has always been the disconnect between this evidence and the appearance of pipes in the archaeological record much earlier. Recently, myself and a group of researchers tested a pipe that is much older, dating to the Late Archaic Period, and it tested positive for nicotine. This find pushes tobacco use back almost 1,500 years and into a time period when we see people first starting to domesticate other plants." ...
According to the paper, the researchers tested 36 pipes from 22 sites.
(Excerpt) Read more at theonefeather.com ...
STUDY: Shown is a pipe which was found at the Flint River archaeological site in northern Alabama in the 1930s. It is the subject of a new study that puts the use of tobacco in the Americas at around 4,000 years ago, much older than previously thought. (Photo contributed)
I’m guessing they didn’t have all the other ingredients our smokes have :)
What did the surgeon general at the time say? :)
I imagine they had some pretty wicked stuff in that!
Algore’s ancestors?
They all died so take your conclusions from there :-)
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly high, You're never gonna die, You're gonna make it if you try; They're gonna love you.
Don’t look for premiums or coupons...
Lol
l dying has been proven to be a hundred percent fatal :)
Did they have Marlboro miles?
In before that Far Side cartoon with the dinosaurs...
Tobacco was smuggled from Alabama into NY City 4000 years ago.
I suspect, as more evidence gets found over the coming years, it’ll turn out that tobacco has been used by humans in one way or another since humans populated areas where tobacco grows wild.
I remember in the 1950s my older Brothers smoked “rabbit tobacco”.
I tried it and it was not good but not as bad as one would think.
Heh heh!
Tell me the name of the game...
Some of the Plains tribes have as a mythological story the use of buffalo dung as an igniter of their peace pipes. The Cherokees also have a similar story.
Elizabeth Warren touts gender oriented buffalo dung for sure without the white buffalo robes.
Rather than a pipe bowl it may have been part of a fire starting tool. It could have been the top piece of a bow drill to press the stick down while starting a friction fire.
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