{"id":47492,"date":"2026-09-09T22:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47492"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:35:44","slug":"indonesian-foragers-may-have-sucked-on-mind-altering-nuts-25000-years-ago-research-finds-science-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47492","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds | Science | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/sep\/09\/indonesian-foragers-mind-altering-nuts-research-finds?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b4767851c6dd1e90d569767d85d7f763f8533371\/0_1211_3024_2419\/master\/3024.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:212px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Analysis of two skeletons reveals tooth wear and traces of psychoactive substance in what may be earliest known evidence for human drug taking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/sep\/09\/indonesian-foragers-mind-altering-nuts-research-finds\">Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds | Science | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While humans probably began using mind-altering plants as soon as they encountered them, the oldest traditions of psychoactive drug use are thought to have arisen about 13,000 years ago with fermented drinks such as barley beer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis of two skeletons reveals tooth wear and traces of psychoactive substance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2312,27,643],"class_list":["post-47492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-betal-nut","tag-drugs","tag-indonesia","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47494,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47492\/revisions\/47494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}