😂 In Earth’s Children, the main character occasionally uses anesthetic beverages to operate on others painlessly. I don’t know how documented that is. When I have some free time, I’ll look up anesthetic use during the neolithic upper paleolithic.
😂 In Earth’s Children, the main character occasionally uses anesthetic beverages to operate on others painlessly. I don’t know how documented that is. When I have some free time, I’ll look up anesthetic use during the neolithic upper paleolithic.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I suppose they could make wine, but anything stronger would require distilling. I’m not sure if they were capable of that? Though maybe there were other things they could smoke or ingest. Opium comes to mind, but not sure if that was available in the geographic regions you would find Neanderthals?
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
ah, yes, alcohol. Why not ! I don’t know where opium grows. In the books they use datura !
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t think there is evidence of neanderthals making pottery. Unlikely that they would be able to make alcohol.
Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/17/in-the-wild-chimps-likely-ingest-the-equivalent-of-several-alcoholic-drinks-every-day/ Wouldn’t necessarily need pottery.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s true enough, but also not reliable. There are not perfectly rotten fruits lying around at all times and places to be used for tooth surgery.