>>A fascinating new study published in the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany , on May 14, details the work of a team of researchers from the University of Vermont who present their evidence that the cannabis plant “evolved 28 million years ago at a specific area on the Tibetan plateau.” <<

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/cannabis-plant-0011944

PermeateFree said:

>>A fascinating new study published in the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany , on May 14, details the work of a team of researchers from the University of Vermont who present their evidence that the cannabis plant “evolved 28 million years ago at a specific area on the Tibetan plateau.” <<

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/cannabis-plant-0011944

I can grok that.

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

>>A fascinating new study published in the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany , on May 14, details the work of a team of researchers from the University of Vermont who present their evidence that the cannabis plant “evolved 28 million years ago at a specific area on the Tibetan plateau.” <<

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/cannabis-plant-0011944

I can grok that.

Well, i really don’t think that humans were cultivating it 28 million years ago.

> “While this medicinal and psychotropic plant was long thought to have first evolved in central Asia, scientists were hazy on the precise location.”

Agree. An early historical reference is from the Greek historian Herodotus, 400 BC. He reported the Scythians heating hemp seeds in a stream bath. They lived around the Black Sea and Caucuses at that time, and from other sources also central asia.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

PermeateFree said:

>>A fascinating new study published in the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany , on May 14, details the work of a team of researchers from the University of Vermont who present their evidence that the cannabis plant “evolved 28 million years ago at a specific area on the Tibetan plateau.” <<

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/cannabis-plant-0011944

I can grok that.

Well, i really don’t think that humans were cultivating it 28 million years ago.

> “While this medicinal and psychotropic plant was long thought to have first evolved in central Asia, scientists were hazy on the precise location.”

Agree. An early historical reference is from the Greek historian Herodotus, 400 BC. He reported the Scythians heating hemp seeds in a stream bath. They lived around the Black Sea and Caucuses at that time, and from other sources also central asia.

There are earlier accounts I’ve read. From archaeology. Of villages of tents made from hemp fibre. One tent in the village had burned hemp seeds in a bowl within the tent. Have never tested the veracity but that was dated before the other known records of agriculture and social townships created around it.