It is reported that tobacco was cultivated (sorta) at the Wishbone camp in Nevada, 12,300 years ago
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That falls in the Younger Dryas snap. Back then I understand that the Bonneville complex of lakes were mostly still in the Basin, not yet the desert it would become 7500 BC on. Many of those lakes would have been brackish but still good for waterfowl and, yeah, the Wishbone campers dined well on duck soup.
The breed is Nicotiana attenuata: a frost-resistant species. Commercial baccy today is N. rustica and tabacum.
The (probably) “ANC-A” peoples at Wishbone at the time were Haskett: contemporary with Clovis but not yet Clovis. Of course Clovis could learn from others and vice-versa.
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