کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1037651 943941 2006 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Evidence of early tobacco in Northeastern North America?
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی مواد دانش مواد (عمومی)
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Evidence of early tobacco in Northeastern North America?
چکیده انگلیسی

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.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Archaeological Science - Volume 33, Issue 4, April 2006, Pages 453–458
نویسندگان
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