I've heard that the recent discovery of trace tobacco and cocaine in the systems of mummies put into question how large and global trade routes actually were. However due to this discovery, it seems to upend a large amount of current 'accepted' history on trade routes and is being dismissed as a fluke, even though multiple labs agree on the results.
Do you have any information or thoughts on this?
(Two links related to the subject found from Internet search to back my question. Originally heard of this debate on a multi-movie doc on Egypt)
Mitchs_Frog_Smacky t1_j6wysx2 wrote
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I've heard that the recent discovery of trace tobacco and cocaine in the systems of mummies put into question how large and global trade routes actually were. However due to this discovery, it seems to upend a large amount of current 'accepted' history on trade routes and is being dismissed as a fluke, even though multiple labs agree on the results.
Do you have any information or thoughts on this?
(Two links related to the subject found from Internet search to back my question. Originally heard of this debate on a multi-movie doc on Egypt)
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm
https://worldhistory.us/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/cocaine-mummies.php