Doug Weller Wrote:
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> > > I get the impression that she isn't
> > suggesting
> > > transatlantic trade, is that correct?
> > > Thanks
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> > > Doug Weller
> > >
> > > Director The Hall of Ma'at
> > > Doug's Skeptical Archaeology site:
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> > She tiptoed up to it, since the only
> explanation
> > for cocaine would be a South American source
> as
> > early as 1000BC. However, others,
> particularly
> > after the TV special on her work did claim
> this as
> > proof of contact.
> > Bernard
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> I'd like to know what she says in "Nicotine use in
> early Mediaeval Kirchheim / Teck, Germany " if
> someone can get hold of it.
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> Doug Weller
>
> Director The Hall of Ma'at
> Doug's Skeptical Archaeology site:

here is the abstract. I have the paper

Balabanova, S., et al. 2001 "Nicotine use in early Mediaeval Kirchheim/Teck, Germany,” Homo 52(1): 72-76

Abstract
“Human bone samples of 123 Alemans of the 5th to 7th c AD were investigated for nicotine. In 23 individuals nicotine was found at levels between 31 and 150 ng/g, and in 49 others nicotine was found in traces. The results indicate that in Germany plants of the genus Nicotiana should have been present, known and used, well before Columbus. The purposes behind this use might have been domestic/medical or ritual, or possibly even as a luxury as occurs today.”

Balabanova only claims to have found cocaine in her Egyptian mummies.

What else do you want to know?

Bernard