Researchers uncover earliest tobacco use in the Pacific Northwest
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 08:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org)—Native American hunter-gatherers living more than a thousand years ago in what is now northwestern California ate salmon, acorns and other foods, and now we know they also smoked tobacco—the earliest known usage in the Pacific Northwest, according to a new University of California, Davis, study.