Hair analysis reveals Europe’s oldest physical evidence of drug use
Mediterranean cave clues show that islanders ingested mind-bending plants around 3,000 years ago
![A photo of the inside of cave with stalagmites and stalactites in a yellow light.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/040523_BB-ancient-drugs_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Hair strands found among a stash of objects in this cave on the island of Menorca have provided Europe's oldest direct evidence of psychoactive drug use, dating to about 3,000 years ago.
ASOME-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona