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Evidence of early tobacco in Northeastern North America?

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Rafferty, Sean M.·2006·Journal of Archaeological Science

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While tobacco use was a widespread and important social practice among Native Americans during the Historic Period, the prehistoric origins of the practice are poorly understood. Smoking pipes significantly predate botanical evidence of tobacco in Eastern North America. A promising technique for addressing this problem is gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) analysis to identify nicotine or related compounds in smoking pipe residues. GC/MS analysis of a smoking pipe dating to approximately 300 B.C. from the Boucher Site, a Middlesex-complex site from Vermont, has produced evidence of nicotine decay products. This is interpreted as evidence for an Early Woodland Period origin for tobacco use in Eastern North America. The cultural and chronological implications of this finding are discussed.

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Authors: Rafferty, S. M.
Affiliations: University at Albany, State University of New York (US)
Corresponding author: Rafferty, Sean M.
Venue: Journal of Archaeological Science
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2006-04
Volume: 33
Issue: 4
Pages: 453-458
ISSN: 0305-4403 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2005.08.006
OpenAlex: W1999243325
Semantic Scholar: 54172b1836e4885eaa44af523d643f5cef1a1acd
Cited by: 53
References: 33
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FWCI: 2.45
Type: journal article
Language: en
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Topics: Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Keywords: Early Woodland period, eastern North America

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