▲ 69 ▼ Betel nut traces in 25,000-year-old teeth point to early human drug use (www.abc.net.au) submitted 1 month ago by Quokka [A] to c/science@mander.xyz 7 comments fedilink hide all child comments In short: Archaeologists have found evidence of a person who used a psychoactive drug up to 25,000 years ago. Tooth fossils in Indonesia suggest that ancient foragers in the region were sucking on betel nut, possibly as a painkiller. What's next? Human drug use is probably older than this sample, but evidence is harder to come by.
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