Getting Drunk on Chocolate in 1100 B.C.: Not only were the first chocoholics tinkering with cacao around 1100 B.C.—500 years earlier than previously thought—but they might have been doing so to get a tipsy buzz. A recent chemical analysis of 3,000-year-old pottery shards in northern Honduras turned up traces of theobromine (its name means “food of the gods”), a chemical that is found in cacao. [Discover]
Ancient Knives Unearthed in Australia: Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Australia’s remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country, archaeologists said Monday. The tools include a piece of flint the size of a small cell phone and hundreds of tiny sharp stones that were used as knives. [Discovery]
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