Scientists: People could have started using tobacco more than 12 thousand years ago

At the Whishbone site in the US state of Utah, researchers were able to find traces of the activities of a person who used tobacco. And it was nine thousand years earlier than previously thought. The journal Nature writes about this.

Archaeologists have come to the conclusion that tobacco was used as an intoxicant 12 thousand years ago, and not three, as was commonly believed. Tobacco seeds have been found. This allowed scientists to conclude that the plant was burned to obtain the desired effect.

At the same time, researchers have not yet come to the final conclusion how exactly the ancient people discovered the properties of tobacco during its domestication. Perhaps, the plant was not previously burned, but its parts were chewed.

Earlier in Australia, they found a new type of tobacco that kills insects. The plant produces a sticky substance to trap and kill arthropods.