The 25,000-Year-Old Teeth That Just Rewrote The History Of Human Drug Use
The chemical traces of arecoline locked into the mineral matrix of the enamel.
The pattern consistent with holding something round and hard of a specific size in the back of the mouth.
This is what three teeth can tell us, if we know how to read them.
The reading required Brumm’s recognition of an unusual pattern.
It required Vlok’s expertise in dental wear.
It required Matheson’s chemical analysis.
It required Papke’s pharmacological experiments.
It required the Indonesian archaeologists’ years of excavation at the Sulawesi caves.
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