The researchers discovered four burnt seeds of a wild tobacco plant at the Wishbone site in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert dating 12,500 to 12,000 years ago.
Apparently humans have been using tobacco for over 12,000 years – around 9,000 years earlier than previously estimated. This new evidence was discovered in the Utah desert where charred seeds were found. The previous record of the oldest evidence of tobacco use was a 3,300-year-old smoking pipe with nicotine inside of it that was found. Read more »