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The Guardian: T rex breath and Queen Elizabeth’s car: scientists creating ‘time machine for the nose’, by Nicola Davis
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/28/archaeology-of-smell-time-machine-for-the-nose-museums
Archaeology Magazine: Earliest Use of Psychoactive Plant Identified in Iron Age Arabia
https://archaeology.org/news/2025/05/27/earliest-use-of-psychoactive-plant-identified-in-iron-age-arabia/
Anthropology.net: Smoke and Memory: How Iron Age Arabia Burned Plants to Heal and Cleanse
https://www.anthropology.net/p/smoke-and-memory-how-iron-age-arabia
The Jerusalem Post: Oldest known use of harmal as incense discovered at Iron Age site in Saudi Arabia
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-855465
Der Standard: Die psychoaktive Steppenraute wurde bereits in der Eisenzeit genutzt
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000271153/die-psychoaktive-steppenraute-wurde-bereits-in-der-eisenzeit-genutzt?ref=rss
mdr Wissen: Psychoaktive Heilpflanze: Unsere Vorfahren in der Eisenzeit rauchten Steppenraute
https://www.mdr.de/themen/wissen/archaeologie-fruehgeschichte/steppenraute-heilpflanze-harmal-mit-psychoaktiver-wirkung-schon-in-der-eisenzeit-benutzt-100.html
Die Presse: Schon Eisenzeit-Menschen verwendeten psychoaktive Steppenraute
https://www.diepresse.com/19717652/schon-eisenzeit-menschen-verwendeten-psychoaktive-steppenraute
Keynote Lecture at Colloquia Ceranea 2025 on Ancient Medicine
https://www.ceraneum.uni.lodz.pl/fileadmin/Jednostki/CERANEUM/Colloquia_7_2025/Colloquia_Ceranea_VII_programme__abstracts.pdf
Barbara Huber won GNAA Science Award 2025 for Excellence in Archaeological Science and Archaeometry
https://www.gea.mpg.de/140806/barbara-huber-awarded-gnaa-science-award-2025?c=115990
