What, you've never smoked a mummy?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: K. Kris Hirst [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 2:09 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Balabanova research (several days late)
>
> Lon Bulgrin <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote (several days ago, sorry, I've been frying my brain under a hot
> Iowa sun)
>
> >>>>
>
>       OK, here's some weird stuff for the list.  On coming to work
> today (well
>       OK, your tomorrow unless you're on the right side of the
> dateline such as
>       my fellow "down under" co-conspirators) I was confronted by a
> number of
>       folks in my office that wanted to know all about the Discovery
> Channel show
>       that they had seen the night before that claimed that mummys
> around the
>       world (i.e. Egypt, Africa, Asia, etc going back millenia before
> the
>       Columbian Exchange) had been found to have detectable traces of
> tobacco and
>       cocaine in preserved hair based on the work of a current
> forensic annalyst.
>
>
> <<<<
>
>
> I recently saw an article in the Journal of Paleopathology on this:
>
> Balabanova, S., F. W. Rosing, G. Buhler, M.Teschler-Nicola, E.
> Strouhal, and J. Rosenthal.
> 1997. Evidence of cocaine in ancient pre-columbian populations from
> Christian Sayala (Egyptian Nubia).Journal of Paleopathology
> 9(1):15-21.
>
> kris
> K. Kris Hirst
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