Posted on 05/06/2019 11:23:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Today's hipster creatives and entrepreneurs are hardly the first generation to partake of ayahuasca, according to archaeologists who have discovered traces of the powerfully hallucinogenic potion in a 1,000-year-old leather bundle buried in a cave in the Bolivian Andes.
Led by University of California, Berkeley, archaeologist Melanie Miller, a chemical analysis of a pouch made from three fox snouts sewn together tested positive for at least five plant-based psychoactive substances. They included dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and harmine, key active compounds in ayahuasca, a mind-blowing brew commonly associated with the Amazon jungle...
Miller's analysis of a scraping from the fox-snout pouch and a plant sample found in the ritual bundle -- via liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry -- turned up trace amounts of bufotenine, DMT, harmine, cocaine and benzoylecgonine. Various combinations of these substances produce powerful, mind-altering hallucinations.
The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence of ritualistic psychotropic plant use going back millennia, said Miller, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago in New Zealand who conducted the research during her doctoral studies at UC Berkeley...
The remarkably well-preserved ritual bundle was found by archaeologists at 13,000-foot elevations in the Lipez Altiplano region of southwestern Bolivia, where llamas and alpacas roam. The leather kit dates back to the pre-Inca Tiwanaku civilization, which dominated the southern Andean highlands from about 550 to 950 A.D.
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Ritual bundle with leather bag, carved wooden snuff tablets and snuff tube with human hair braids, pouch made of three fox snouts, camelid bone spatulas, colorful textile headband and wool and fiber strings. Credit: Photos courtesy of Juan Albarracín-Jord´n and Jos&ecute; Capriles.
The researchers found a ritual bundle in the Cueva del Chileno rock shelter located in southwestern Bolivia. Credit: Photos courtesy of Juan Albarracín-Jordán and Jos&ecute; Capriles.
They'll stone you when you try to go home. BTW, this bundle was found at 13,000 ft altitude.
Maybe the foxes were getting high?
Before they were relieved of their snouts.
What did the fox say?
I jumped over the lazy dog.
Nimrod went to a lot of trouble when all he had to do to reach the Heavenly Realm was find a source of DMT in Mesopotamia or its territories.
I have heard that the Acacia Nilotica, grown along the Nile, is a good source for it.
>>BTW, this bundle was found at 13,000 ft altitude.
Must’ve been very high when they made this discovery
Colorful headband?
And we thought Jimi Hendrix was an innovator.
Cocaine is a helluva drug.....................
LOL!.....One of Biden’s ancestors, no doubt!....................
Far up, man.
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That was only the Quick Brown one.
They discovered someone’s stash.
There is a measure on the Denver ballot today to legalize psychedelic mushrooms. The more things change . . .
In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.' 'One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to herself. 'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight. Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.
:-))
Thanks for reminding me that I need to clean out my refrigerator.
BTW, the mushroom measure failed.
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