Culture & science October 2016 🇨🇳 China

A shroud of thirteen cannabis plants is described from a grave in Turpan

Researchers reported a man of about 35 buried at the Jiayi cemetery in the Turpan basin, 2,800 to 2,400 years ago, with thirteen nearly whole cannabis plants laid diagonally across his body. The plants seem to have been grown locally and cut in late summer; the authors suggested ritual or medicinal use.^[1]^[2]

In the cultural atlas

TraditionsCannabis in the graves of XinjiangThree cemeteries in western China, 2,800 to 2,400 years old, hold cannabis laid beside the dead, spread over them or burnt at the graveside. They are some of the oldest physical evidence of the plant used for more than fibre and food.

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References

Economic Botany — Jiang et al., Ancient Cannabis Burial Shroud in a Central Eurasian Cemetery (2016)archived
Phys.org — Ancient skeleton with cannabis 'shroud' unearthed in China (6 October 2016)

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