The 25,000-Year-Old Teeth That Just Rewrote The History Of Human Drug Use

The collaboration itself is part of what makes the discovery significant: it is a demonstration of what becomes possible when specialists in fields that rarely communicate — archaeology, pharmacology, biochemistry, dental pathology — are brought into productive conversation around a specific problem.

The Full Author List And What It Represents

The Science Advances paper on the betel nut discovery lists fourteen authors.

This is a large author list by the standards of archaeological publication, and each name on the list represents a specific contribution to the study.

The full list: Adam Brumm, Fakhri, Melandri Vlok, Roger L.

Papke, Carney D.

Matheson, Budianto Hakim, Clare Stokes, Basran Burhan, Suryatman, Andi Muhammad Saiful, Michelle C.

Langley, Pratiwi Yuwono, Delta Bayu Murti, Sofwan Noerwidi, and Marlon N.