Earliest evidence for human use of tobacco in the Pleistocene Americas.
Journal
Nature human behaviour
ISSN: 2397-3374
Titre abrégé: Nat Hum Behav
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101697750
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Date de publication:
02 2022
02 2022
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01
2021
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08
2021
pubmed:
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10
2021
medline:
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2022
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2021
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Résumé
Current archaeological research on cultigens emphasizes the protracted and intimate human interactions with wild species that defined paths to domestication and, with certain plants, profoundly impacted humanity. Tobacco arguably has had more impact on global patterns in history than any other psychoactive substance, but how deep its cultural ties extend has been widely debated. Excavations at the Wishbone site, directed at the hearth-side activities of the early inhabitants of North America's desert west, have uncovered evidence for human tobacco use approximately 12,300 years ago, 9,000 years earlier than previously documented. Here we detail the preservation context of the site, discuss its cultural affiliation and suggest ways that the tobacco may have been used. The find has implications for our understanding of deep-time human use of intoxicants and its sociocultural intersection with food crop domestication.
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pubmed: 34635825
doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01202-9
pii: 10.1038/s41562-021-01202-9
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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eng
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