Scientists Find Evidence Humans Were Getting High 25,000 Years Ago: Here's What They Used
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25,000-Year-Old Teeth Reveal Ancient Humans Were Addicted to Nut Sucking
Humans are no strangers to drug use. We’ve been blowing our minds out of our skulls for thousands of years. It’s just that we previously thought we waited a bit longer as a species before we dabbled in mind-expansion. New research published in Science Advances suggests we can push the timeline of human drug use […]
Scientists find evidence humans were getting high 25,000 years ago: Here's what they used
Humans may have been using mind-altering drugs as far back as 25,000 years ago, long before farming, cities or written language even existed.Scientists have found what they believe is the oldest known evidence of habitual drug use in the...
On Sulawesi, teeth from a hunter-gatherer who lived between 25,000 and 16,000 years ago contained traces of arecoline and deep grooves from habitually sucking hard betel nuts—the oldest known evidence of regular use of a psychoactive plant drug.
Unusual dental wear and arecoline residues in two preagricultural Sulawesi foragers point to habitual whole-seed sucking, while a tiny sample and indirect dating limit the claim.
A research led by the University of Griffith (Australia) found that the use of psychoactive substances originated in some Indonesian communities 25,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, far beyond the previously suggested beginnings, located in the Neolithic or Bronze Age. The study, published in Science Advances magazine, combined evidence [...]
25,000 years ago, people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi apparently sucked betel nuts – not for pleasure, but perhaps for toothache. New finds of ancient teeth provide surprising clues as to how early man used psychoactive substances – with fatal consequences.
An analysis of human remains found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi detected signs of the usual consumption of areca nut up to 25,000 years ago. The finding constitutes the oldest known direct evidence of this practice and places its origins thousands of years before the development of agriculture. Read more
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