Learn how a necklace of 42 teeth and a stone axe could help researchers piece together the life of a man buried in Poland.

Two hunter-gatherers from Sulawesi show unusual rounded grooves worn deeply into their teeth, while chemical analysis detected arecoline, the main psychoactive alkaloid associated with areca, or ...

What may be the earliest known evidence of human drug use suggests that it occurred 25,000 years ago, according to new research.

This individual may have regularly sucked on betel nuts, known for their mind-altering properties, leading to worsening ...

In terms of weaponry, the teeth of the goliath tigerfish are surely the most extraordinary of all the 18,000 species of ...

The researchers argue that the object was a whole areca seed, better known as betel nut. Chemical traces of arecoline, its ...

Until now, researchers had never identified a Denisovan radius — one of the two long bones of the forearm. The ancient humans ...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Pakistani authorities to reverse orders requiring Afghan medical ...

Seven Denisovan fossils from Bianfu Cave in southwest China have opened an unusually detailed window onto a vanished archaic human population. Dating from about 167,000 to 134,000 years ago, the finds ...

This relatively recent finding extends the timeline of the use of betel nuts thousands of years into the past, far into the ...

A scientist was conducting a field survey to help a threatened species of frog in northern California when she came across ...

The council’s research department told Amu TV that the directive covers all Afghan students, including scholarship recipients ...