Humans everywhere use mind-altering substances, from stimulants and narcotics to hallucinogens. Yet surprisingly little is ...
Strange grooves and drug residues in prehistoric teeth reveal a psychoactive habit that may predate farming by more than 10,000 years.
Ancient teeth suggest humans were using psychoactive betel nuts 25,000 years ago, pushing the history of habitual drug use ...
Humans may have been using mind-altering drugs as far back as 25,000 years ago, long before farming, cities or written ...
Prehistoric humans may have used whole betel nuts for pain relief thousands of years before chasing a high became popular, ...
A discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is rewriting the history of human drug use. Ancient teeth reveal that Ice ...
Analysis of two skeletons reveals tooth wear and traces of psychoactive substance in what may be earliest known evidence for human drug taking ...
Researchers said the finds could be the earliest evidence of habitual psychoactive substance use. A study of the teeth of ...
Archaeologists find evidence in Indonesia of a human who appeared to use betel nut for its psychoactive properties up to 25,000 years ago.
The researchers argue that the object was a whole areca seed, better known as betel nut. Chemical traces of arecoline, its ...
The evidence shows that betel nuts were used as drugs by some Indonesian communities up to 25,000 years ago. Scientists from ...