Humans first domesticated cannabis, one of the oldest cultivated crops, more than 10,000 years ago shortly after the Ice Age ended. Religious texts even suggest the Hindu god Shiva brought the plant down from the Himalayas. Nevertheless, solid evidence puts early cannabis evolution in a particular sweet spot in the Central Asian (or Eurasian) Steppe in and around present-day countries like Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Western China.