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Humans were using tobacco at least 12,000 years ago - CNN

Humans were using tobacco at least 12,000 years ago - CNN

Humans were using tobacco at least 12,000 years ago - CNN
Oct 11, 2021 49 secs

Charred seeds found in an ancient hearth used by hunter-gatherers in what's now Utah suggest that humans used tobacco more than 12,000 years ago -- 9,000 years earlier than previously documented and well before agriculture took root in the Americas.

"Tobacco arguably has had more impact on global patterns in history that any other psychoactive substance, but how deep its cultural ties extend has been widely debated," the study noted.

The hearth at the Wishbone site in the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah was discovered in 2015 during a routine archeological survey, said Daron Duke, principal and COO at Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc.

It was a "little black smudge on the open mud flats of the Great Salt Lake Desert," said Duke, the lead author of a study on the tobacco find that published Monday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

Duke and his colleagues excavated the site, which was surrounded by stone artifacts and bones -- some of which had been exposed by the wind.

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