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Researchers tested several chewers to find a chemical marker unique to betel nut that could be used to determine if the person had been chewing, they said.
This is the earliest direct biomolecular evidence of betel nut use in south-east Asia. We demonstrate that dental calculus can preserve chemical signatures of psychoactive plant use for millennia, even when conventional archaeological evidence is completely absent, added Dr Shannon Tushingham, the senior author, who is the associate curator of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences