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

Long before anyone in Upper Mesopotamia planted a crop or fired a piece of pottery, groups of hunter-gatherers dragged ...

Many researchers contend that most human intoxicant use began with fermented alcoholic drinks, amid the rise of farming ...

A hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia as early as 25,000 years ago may have regularly sucked on betel nuts to release ...

Hunter-gatherers from the last ice age sucked on betel nuts to soothe their toothaches, a new study reveals.

Read more about the cremation of a mysterious woman 9,500 years ago, which tells a more complex story of how hunter-gatherers treated their dead. How humans deal with death and the rituals we build ...

Pairing an evolutionary anthropologist with a child psychiatrist has produced a new study that provides interesting insights into how children’s mental well-being and education might be improved by ...

Many of us want to live long, happy and healthy lives. Yet it's often confusing to know the best way to achieve this, and many aspects of modern, westernized living conspire to keep us from achieving ...

In the distant past sugar and fat were rare and prized, so humans evolved a strong drive to consume them whenever they were available. Now supermarket shelves explode with Twinkies and Doritos, ...

Move over helicopter parents, tiger moms, and bulldozer dads—a new parenting style (that's quite ancient, actually), would like to take the floor. According to the Hill, a new paper in Developmental ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.31550144.3 https ...

Infants and toddlers may be psychologically wired to thrive with high levels of "sensitive care" and personal attention, according to a study conducted with contemporary hunter-gatherer societies.