Detection of fossil tobacco plants 2.5 million years

Peruvian archaeologists said on November 19 that they discovered a fossil of a tobacco plant in the North Amazon region.

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Experts from the Meyer-Honninger Biological Museum say that this Peistocene tobacco plant is about 2.5 million years from our time.

The fossil block containing tobacco plants about 30cm2 in size was found earlier this week in the Maranon River basin (Northeastern Peru).

According to the institute, this finding is a proof that tobacco may have originated in northern Peru. Scientists also said that Native Americans have been smoking and chewing tobacco for a long time, before European explorers set foot in the area in the 15th century.

Tobacco at that time was also used for many other purposes such as used for healing (such as eye drops .) or many customary rituals such as releasing smoke into the opponent's face before fighting or on human women before having sex.