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Hearth site in Utah desert reveals human tobacco use 12,300 years ago
KSL ^
Posted on 10/11/2021 9:01:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Researchers discovered four charred seeds of a wild tobacco plant within the hearth contents, along with stone tools and duck bones left over from meals. Until now, the earliest documented use of tobacco came in the form of nicotine residue found inside a smoking pipe from Alabama dating to 3,300 years ago.
The researchers believe the nomadic hunter-gatherers at the Utah site may have smoked the tobacco or perhaps sucked wads of tobacco plant fiber for the stimulant qualities offered by the nicotine it contained.
After tobacco use originated among the New World's native peoples, it spread worldwide following the arrival of Europeans more than five centuries ago.
The seeds belonged to a wild variety of desert tobacco, named Nicotiana attenuata, that still grows in the area.
Artifacts there included small sharp stone cutting tools and spear tips made of a volcanic glass called obsidian, used for hunting large mammals. One spear tip bore the remains of blood proteins from a mammoth or mastodon - elephant relatives that later went extinct.
(Excerpt) Read more at ksl.com ...
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: alabama; godsgravesglyphs; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons; nicotianaattenuata; obsidian; tobacco; utah
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posted on
10/11/2021 9:01:35 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Are they still dead?
Tobacco kills.
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posted on
10/11/2021 9:05:38 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Political Correctness Offends Me)
To: BenLurkin
Can the discovery of ancient SUVs be far behind?
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posted on
10/11/2021 9:06:43 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Veto!
If it wasn’t for the second hand smoke, they still would be roaming the planet today...
;-)
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posted on
10/11/2021 9:07:00 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.
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posted on
10/11/2021 9:25:06 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: cgbg
Did the nomadic hunter-gatherers’ government tax and regulate their tobacco industry to death?
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posted on
10/11/2021 9:26:53 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/12/2021 1:25:39 AM PDT
by
Samurai_Jack
(This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
To: Rurudyne
Can the discovery of ancient SUVs be far behind?Already confirmed...
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posted on
10/12/2021 1:57:39 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(You are not a horse, you are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.)
To: BenLurkin
Confirmed by Hearth & Human Services?
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posted on
10/12/2021 2:02:51 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: All
“Want a smoke?”
“Nah, I’m going to kill off the last mammoth, maybe later.”
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posted on
10/12/2021 2:43:02 AM PDT
by
Peter ODonnell
(a cloud has fallen over the lands of the free )
To: Fresh Wind
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posted on
10/12/2021 3:15:48 AM PDT
by
knarf
To: knarf
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posted on
10/12/2021 3:39:35 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(You are not a horse, you are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.)
To: BenLurkin
Tobacco? Was it Connecticut Shade Grown tobacco?
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posted on
10/12/2021 4:33:55 AM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention)
To: Veto!
“Are they still dead?
Tobacco kills.”
Yes, to a man. Case closed, it’s now been proven by these poor test subjects.
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posted on
10/12/2021 4:34:00 AM PDT
by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
To: BenLurkin
"Hearth site in Utah desert reveals human tobacco use 12,300 years ago" That's the same time frame as the Pleistocene extinction of the megafauna. Secondhand smoke. The Science is clear.
To: SunkenCiv
And they ALL DIED!.............................
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posted on
10/12/2021 5:34:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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posted on
10/12/2021 6:30:26 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: BenLurkin
In before The Far Side Dinosaur cartoon.
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posted on
10/12/2021 6:31:11 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BenLurkin
Coyote tobacco, Nicotiana attenuata.
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posted on
10/12/2021 6:42:43 AM PDT
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: Veto!
‘Are they still dead?’
Keith Richards still lives...
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