Humans may have been using mind-altering drugs as far back as 25,000 years ago, long before farming, cities or written ...
Ancient teeth suggest humans were using psychoactive betel nuts 25,000 years ago, pushing the history of habitual drug use ...
Ancient teeth from Indonesia reveal a hidden Ice Age habit involving psychoactive nuts long before farming and beer.
Two hunter-gatherers from Sulawesi show unusual rounded grooves worn deeply into their teeth, while chemical analysis detected arecoline, the main psychoactive alkaloid associated with areca, or ...
The researchers argue that the object was a whole areca seed, better known as betel nut. Chemical traces of arecoline, its ...
A 25,000 year old skeleton from Sulawesi shows hunter gatherers sucked on betel nuts, likely to ease toothaches, in the ...
Researchers said the finds could be the earliest evidence of habitual psychoactive substance use. A study of the teeth of ...
Fossilised remains of two people, found by archaeologists on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, carry traces of the psychoactive substance in their jaws. One of the fossils is dated between 16,000 ...
Ancient teeth from Sulawesi show betel nut use 25,000 years ago. This habit predates early farming and represents habitual ...
Scientists believe they have found the earliest known human use of psychoactive drugs among foragers who lived 25,000 years ...
The earliest evidence of the deliberate consumption of psychoactive plants and habitual drug use has been found ...
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