Will the documentation of ancient addiction and dental destruction provide new ways of framing the health risks?

Will the finding inspire new historical pride or new historical caution?

These are questions for communities, not for scientists.

But they are questions that the Sulawesi discovery has opened.

Why The Answer Was In The Teeth

There is something fitting about the fact that the oldest evidence for human drug use was preserved in dental tissue.

Teeth are the hardest, most durable part of the human body.

They are the part that most commonly survives archaeological burial.