The 25,000-Year-Old Teeth That Just Rewrote The History Of Human Drug Use
Before they wrote.
Before, as far as we can tell, they did almost anything that we associate with “civilization.”
The betel nut habit of the Sulawesi forager is ancient evidence of a very modern-feeling desire: to feel different than you feel right now, and to use whatever the world offers to make that happen.
The areca palm was what the world offered, in that particular place, at that particular time.
The forager took what was offered.
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