1,300-Year-Old Pottery Found in Colorado Contains Ancient ‘Natural Aspirin’

Hallucinogenic Plants May Be Key to Decoding Ancient Southwestern Paintings, Expert Says

October 17, 2014 —by Blake de Pastino 37798 6

Dozens of rock art sites in southern New Mexico, recently documented for the first time, are revealing unexpected botanical clues that archaeologists say may help unlock the meaning of the…

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1,300-Year-Old Pottery Found in Colorado Contains Ancient ‘Natural Aspirin’

August 12, 2014 —by Blake de Pastino 23421 4

Fragmented pottery unearthed in a rockshelter in east central Colorado has revealed traces of salicylic acid, a substance derived from willow bark that’s the natural precursor to modern-day aspirin. Dated…

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Hallucinogenic Plants May Be Key to Decoding Ancient Southwestern Paintings, Expert Says

1,300-Year-Old Pottery Found in Colorado Contains Ancient ‘Natural Aspirin’

700,000-Year-Old Horse Found in Yukon Permafrost Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded

At 50, Ring-Tab Beer Cans Are Now Officially Historic Artifacts

16,000-Year-Old Tools Discovered in Texas, Among the Oldest Found in the West

Wyoming Wildfire Reveals ‘Massive’ Shoshone Camp, Thousands of Artifacts

New Dinosaur Found in Montana Reveals Tyrannosaurs’ True Face (They Didn’t Have Lips)

First-Ever Fossil Poop Excavated From L.A.’s La Brea Tar Pits

New Feathered Dinosaur From New Mexico Was Among the ‘Last of the Raptors’

America’s Earliest Traces of Potato Use Found at 10,900-Year-Old Utah Shelter

Rock Art in Chaco Canyon May Depict Ancient Solar Eclipse, Experts Say

World’s Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur, a ‘Mona Lisa’ of Fossils, Found in Alberta