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Scientists Find 1,000-Year-Old Shaman’s Bag in Bolivia
Sci-News ^ | 7MAY19 | Editorial staff

Posted on 05/20/2019 5:07:13 AM PDT by vannrox

An international team of anthropologists and bioarchaeologists has found the primary ingredients of ayahuasca — a plant-based drink that is reported to induce hallucinations and altered consciousness — in a 1,000-year-old leather bundle from a rock shelter in the Bolivian Andes.

Two of the artifacts from the 1,000-year-old ritual bundle from Cueva del Chileno, southwestern Bolivia: the impressive pouch constructed of three fox (Lycalopex culpaeus) snouts stitched together (foreground), and the colorful textile headband (background). Image credit: Jose Capriles / Penn State.

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To: vannrox
Again...

Quit abusing the news forum with chat material.

21 posted on 05/20/2019 7:39:34 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: vannrox
I know someone twice as old as that Shaman:


22 posted on 05/20/2019 8:56:52 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: vannrox

A thousand-year-old shaman? He outlived Methuselah!


23 posted on 05/20/2019 10:37:06 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: vannrox
Thanks vannrox. Posted a couple of times, but adding this one to the catalog.

24 posted on 05/20/2019 11:50:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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