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Evidence of early tobacco in Northeastern North America?
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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)
- OpenAlex
- W1999243325
- Semantic Scholar
- 54172b1836e4885eaa44af523d643f5cef1a1acd
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 33
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- FWCI
- 2.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- 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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