The 25,000-Year-Old Teeth That Just Rewrote The History Of Human Drug Use
It is, apparently, very deeply human.
The Addiction Question And Its Archaeological Implications
The study makes a careful argument about addiction, and it is worth examining because it represents a significant contribution to how we understand the deep prehistory of this phenomenon.
Modern clinical definitions of addiction — formalized in diagnostic manuals like the DSM-5 — emphasize several features: continued use despite knowledge of harm, craving, loss of control, tolerance (needing more substance to achieve the same effect), and withdrawal symptoms.
The Sulawesi foragers could not tell us whether they experienced craving, withdrawal, or loss of control.
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