Hemp History BCE Archives

10.000 BCE: Chinese farmers grow ancient cannabis alongside early food crops Scientists have discovered that all modern cannabis can be ...

8000 - 7000 BCE: The first sign of people using hemp The Columbia History of the World states that the ...

7.000 BCE: Earliest sample of clothing ever found. Catalhoyuc is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world ...

4000 BCE: The earliest well-documented evidence of cannabis use. The earliest well-documented evidence of cannabis use is from China, where ...

>3.000 BCE: Neolithic cave dwellers use cannabis for psychoactive effects . In the area of the Hindu Kush mountains, on ...

2700 BCE: Shennong pen Ts'ao first describes cannabis and some of its uses. Shennong pen Ts'ao king is a Chinese ...

2300 BCE: Beaker culture uses cannabis in The Netherlands. In 2007, archaeologists discovered a late Neolithic grave attributed to the ...

1800 BCE: Ancient Egyptian magic spells require cannabis Popular belief suggests that a famous 4500-year-old ship, found back in pristine ...

2300 - 1700 BCE: The Oxus Civilization uses ephedra and cannabis in their rituals. The Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (or BMAC, ...