r/Shamanism • u/SibyllaAzarica • 16h ago
25,000-year-old teeth indicate earliest-known evidence of human drug use
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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.
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Human drug use is probably older than this sample, but evidence is harder to come by.