A 25,000-Year-Old Drug Habit Was Hidden in Ancient Teeth
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Archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence of drug use on Sulawesi. Two bites tell of betel nuts in the ice age. And of a fatal cycle.
Researchers at Griffith University have discovered evidence that indicates the use of betel nuts by humans 25,000 years ago, challenging the notion that the consumption of psychoactive substances began only in...
A 25,000-Year-Old Drug Habit Was Hidden in Ancient Teeth
Ancient teeth suggest humans were using psychoactive betel nuts 25,000 years ago, pushing the history of habitual drug use deep into the Ice Age. Archaeologists from Griffith University have found evidence suggesting that humans were using mind-altering substances far earlier than previously believed. The research team, led by Professor Adam Brumm of Griffith’s Australian Research [...]
It was discovered the first consumer of psychoactive substances in the world, and its habit dates back 25,000 years. Scientists from Griffith University say that a hunter-gatherer from Indonesia used to chew "betel nuts during the last ice age. These nuts induce a mild euphoria and a state of [...]
Two hunters-gatherers of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi may have left us the oldest known evidence of drug use. It feels a cold, an adrenaline, and sweats a little, says who consumes it today. In their teeth, researchers have recently found traces of wear and chemical traces that point to a habit that remains to this day: keeping whole seeds of beech in the mouth. One of the individuals will have lived for 16 thousand to 25 thousand years; th…
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