Ancient hallucinogens found in 1,000-year-old shamanic pouch

[G_j]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/05/ancient-hallucinogens-oldest-ayahuasca-found-shaman-pouch/?fbclid=IwAR2JZxrkV-ShZgwogfp6EkfaaXiE3ds2TmugB574KLAaKhUh2sEQ7ACb9QU


The ritual container, made of three fox snouts, contains the earliest known evidence of ayahuasca preparation.

BY ERIN BLAKEMORE

A SMALL POUCH, made from three fox snouts neatly sewn together, may contain the world’s earliest archaeological evidence for the consumption of ayahuasca, a psychoactive plant preparation indigenous to peoples of the Amazon basin that produces potent hallucinations.

The pouch likely belonged to a shaman in what is now southwestern Bolivia around a thousand years ago, according to José Capriles, an anthropologist at Penn State University and an author of a paper published on the discovery today in the journal PNAS.

Capriles found the pouch—and evidence of its trip-inducing contents—during a 2010 archaeological dig in Cueva del Chileno, a rock shelter that shows signs of human activity going back 4,000 years.

The cave was once used as a tomb, and though later looters took the bodies, they left behind what they considered to be garbage—beads, braids of human hair, and what Capriles first thought was a leather shoe.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Now, that would be a "trip"

[world wide wally]

2. Hey dude. Where's my canoe?

[Brother Buzz]

3. Fox snout pouch

[BootinUp]

4. Good shit mang.

[hunter]

5. I arbitrarily set my "human" measure at a million years or more.

A million years ago there were people who knew if you ate or drank certain things your perception of the universe would get weird.

Yet they did it anyways.

It's not just humans.

We once had a conure living with us who whenever a glass of wine was poured in the house would fly over and be right on it.



We'd have to lock her in her cage or warn house guests.

Locked in her cage she was the meanest nastiest noisiest bird I've ever met, so we we mostly didn't lock her up. But wow did she like wine.

[UTUSN]

6. So... medicinal purposes...

[H2O Man]

7. Recommended.

One question -- are they still good?