Early Crops

[buddenbrooks]

On the news group comp.sys.raspberry-pi an off topic (they have them too)
was the assertion that:

Humans have been using cannabis for at least 10,000 years.

Which presumably mean farmes were growing it ( I assume 10,000 years ago
the sale of drugs acts did not apply).
The period seems too long ago. Any view to when non-food cops came under
cultivation?

[Peter Duncanson]

I'm not sure when farms as we think of them came into existence. People,
families and larger groups, would have been cultivating plants for their
own use before farming, cultivation for sale, started.

The Wikipedia article on cannabis mentions that it seems to have been
smoked in Romania in the 3rd millenium BC. Last item in this section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_millennium_BC#Inventions.2C_discoveries.2C_introductions


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Peter Duncanson, UK
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[Steve]

In article <9kjrr89ge55q9o0k7...@4ax.com>,
ma...@peterduncanson.net says...

hmm, from a cursory google it seems that rope was used 17,000 years ago.
Depending on where in the world this was, it is possible that hemp was
the fibre used. I believe that hemp is widely distributed across all the
continents (not antartica) as an indigenous plant, sisal and manilla
probably less so. Therefore, the assertion could be made that the figure
of 10,000 should amended to 17,000.

with the proviso that, 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing - and
googling is much worse'

[greymausg]

For those of us who were there and did that, you can make a rope
out of ordinary grass. This was used to used to hold `haycocks'
(also known as cocks, trams, and aa whole lot of other names)
against the wind. God, how the years have passed.



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[Derek Moody]

In article <i8qdnXzWKeSpXCDM...@brightview.co.uk>, buddenbrooks

Presumably the wild progenitor was gathered before cultivation came along.
The seed oil and stem fibre would have been valuable even without any mind
altering properties.

Cheerio,

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