For the first time, archaeologists have used advanced scientific techniques on 4,000-year-old dental plaque to confirm traces of betel nut chewing in ancient Thai communities. Betel nuts are usually ...

Traces of a psychoactive compound has been detected in the dental plaque of a Bronze Age woman buried in Thailand some 4,000 years ago, making it the earliest direct chemical evidence of humans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Betel nuts are displayed in a stall at an agricultural fair at the Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra campus in Bangalore on November 19, ...

People were taking drugs to get high 4,000 years ago, reveals a new study. Ancient tooth marks dating back to the Bronze Age are the earliest traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts, say ...

Betel nut chewing is more than just a simple habit. Throughout history, communities across Southeast Asia have used these nuts socially, spiritually, and medicinally. Wrapped in betel leaves and ...

New methods make the ‘invisible visible’ to find evidence of deeply rooted cultural practice which otherwise might have been lost in the archaeological record In south-east Asia, betel nut chewing has ...

Long before Ethiopian monks in the 9th century discovered that coffee tree fruit helped them stay awake during evening prayer (according to legend, anyway), communities in Southeast Asia have been ...