The ancient history of kissing

Troels Pank Arbøll¹, Sophie Lund Rasmussen^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Linacre College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney, UK.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

Troels Pank Arbøll et al. Science. 2023.

. 2023 May 19;380(6646):688-690.

doi: 10.1126/science.adf0512. Epub 2023 May 18.

Troels Pank Arbøll¹, Sophie Lund Rasmussen^{2

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4}

¹ Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Linacre College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney, UK.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

Abstract

Sources from Mesopotamia contextualize the emergence of kissing and its role in disease transmission.