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It's Oldest Evidence of Habitual Drug Use—and the Damage
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Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in Really Old Teeth
Researchers have identified the earliest known evidence of human drug use through the analysis of fossilized teeth dating back 25,000 years in Indonesia.
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Oldest evidence of a plague outbreak found in prehistoric graves, rewriting the disease’s history
Ancient DNA from Siberia reveals a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago, pushing back the known history of the disease by four millennia.