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Archaeology: Tobacco seeds date first human use to 12,300 years ago
Seeds found at an historical campsite in Nevada point out folks have been utilizing tobacco for not less than 12,300 years, which is way longer than beforehand thought.
Tobacco vegetation are native to North America, and people are thought to have reached the continent round 20,000 to 16,000 years in the past. “This implies that individuals discovered the intoxicant properties of tobacco comparatively early of their time right here somewhat than solely with domestication and agriculture hundreds of years later,” says Daron Duke on the …