🚀 go-pugleaf

In dc.general, wls@astro.umd.edu (William L. Sebok) writes:
>
>I don't believe this.  Tobacco originated in the Americas and was not present
>in the Old World before Columbus.  I am not aware of any other source of
>nicotine other than tobacco.

It was in a wire service report printed in yesterdays Fairfax Journal.
The limited information did include a hint that research will be
done to see if the substances were introduced somehow after death.

In any case, even if nicotine were only available from the Americas,
there is evidence of Africans in the Americas.
I don't recall whether or not
that evidence is available for the earlier
end of the time period.  Certainly there is evidence for contact
with the Olmecs.
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