This discovery made by US scientists provided extensive data on the use of tobacco by early humans, but also showed that tobacco was not only used for agricultural purposes and therefore played an important role in shaping ancient civilizations.
The seeds in question were found in a quarry built by the first homeowners of Utah’s Big Salt Lake. It was determined that the tobacco species found belonged to the Nicotiana attenuate species, which is still growing in the same region.
Hunter-gatherer nomads may have sucked tobacco leaves to get nicotine
Daron Duke, one of the archaeologists who made the discovery, made the following statements about their findings: “We have never seen this plant domesticated before, but we learned that the native people here used this tobacco until this time.”
The scientists said that the first to discover this tobacco were hunter-gatherer and nomadic people and may have smoked the tobacco in some way or sucked on its leaves to be stimulated with nicotine.
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