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Evidence of early tobacco in Northeastern North America?

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Rafferty, Sean M.·2006·Journal of Archaeological Science
DOI 10.1016/j.jas.2005.08.006
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Abstract

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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  1. Joniger, 1973, Suggestive hallucinogenic properties of tobacco, Medical Anthropology Newsletter, 4, 6
  2. Knight, 1975, Some observations concerning plant materials and aboriginal smoking in eastern North America, Journal of Alabama Archaeology, 21, 120
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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
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Journal of Archaeological Science (publishedVersion)
  • The Digital Archeological Record (tDAR)
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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