Genetics: Ukraine, Crimean Peninsula Autoflower Hashplant
Eastern European Landrace
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Prehistoric Connections with Cannabis
Yamnaya Culture, also known as the Pit Grave Culture Generally considered by linguists as the homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language.
Probably originated between the Lower Don, the Lower Volga and North Caucasus during the Chalcolithic, around what became the Novotitorovka culture (3300-2700 BCE) within the Yamna culture.
Highly mobile steppe culture of pastoral nomads relying heavily on cattle (dairy farming). Sheep were also kept for their wool. Hunting, fishing and sporadic agriculture was practiced near rivers.
First culture (along with Maykop) to make regular use of ox-drawn wheeled carts. Metal artifacts (tools, axes, tanged daggers) were mostly made of copper, with some arsenical bronze. Domesticated horses used as pack animal and ridden to manage cattle herds.
Coarse, flat-bottomed, egg-shaped pottery decorated with comb stamps and cord impressions.
The dead were inhumed in pit graves inside kurgans (burial mounds). Bodies were placed in a supine position with bent knees and covered in ochre. Wagons/carts and sacrificed animals (cattle, horse, sheep) were present in graves, a trait typical of later Indo-European cultures.
Ukraine, Crimean Hash Plant
To really know cannabis – its character, its roots, the worlds from which it emerged – you have to know the deep history and deep geography of Ukraine, in particular an encounter on the Black Sea Steppe between the ancient Greeks and the Pontic Scythians that began almost 3000 years ago, out of which emerged the first written account of cannabis intoxication and the very word cannabis itself.
The Scythians only enjoy a fleeting role in this lecture series, but Snyder is still as fine a guide as there is to Ukraine and what its unfolding history means for all of us and our futures.
For a journey deeper into the world of the Scythians themselves check out this excellent lecture by ace archaeologist Barry Cunliffe, The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe, and this piece about those alleged Scythian bongs: Those Scythian Bongs Don’t Exist.
The Scythians were history’s original dope fiends.
Here’s some first-class Scythian chat from Barry Cunliffe, ace archaeologist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ7Ia_L6bgk
Prehistoric Connections with Cannabis Yamnaya Culture, also known as the Pit Grave Culture Generally considered by linguists as the homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language.Probably originated between the Lower Don, the Lower Volga and North Caucasus during the Chalcolithic, around what became the Novotitorovka culture (3300-2700 BCE) within the Yamna culture.Highly mobile steppe culture of pastoral nomads relying heavily on cattle (dairy farming). Sheep were also kept for their wool. Hunting, fishing and sporadic agriculture was practiced near rivers.First culture (along with Maykop) to make regular use of ox-drawn wheeled carts. Metal artifacts (tools, axes, tanged daggers) were mostly made of copper, with some arsenical bronze. Domesticated horses used as pack animal and ridden to manage cattle herds.Coarse, flat-bottomed, egg-shaped pottery decorated with comb stamps and cord impressions.The dead were inhumed in pit graves inside kurgans (burial mounds). Bodies were placed in a supine position with bent knees and covered in ochre. Wagons/carts and sacrificed animals (cattle, horse, sheep) were present in graves, a trait typical of later Indo-European cultures.
