Posted on 10/20/2008 6:31:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...researchers have found equipment used to prepare hallucinogenic drugs for sniffing, and dated them back to prehistoric South American tribes.
Quetta Kaye, of University College London, and Scott Fitzpatrick, an archeologist from North Carolina State University, made the breakthrough on the Caribbean island of Carriacou.
They found ceramic bowls, as well as tubes for inhaling drug fumes or powders, which appear to have originated in South America between 100BC and 400BC and were then carried 400 miles to the islands.
While the use of such paraphernalia for inhaling drugs is well-known, the age of the bowls has thrown new light on how long humans have been taking drugs.
Scientists believe that the drug being used was cohoba, a hallucinogen made from the beans of a mimosa species. Drugs such as cannabis were not found in the Caribbean then.
Opiates can be obtained from species such as poppies, while fungi, which was widespread, may also have been used.
Archeologists have suggested that humans were extracting mind-expanding drugs from mescal beans and peyote cacti as far back as 5,000 years ago, but have not found direct evidence that this is true.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
As Rush likes to point out...who licked the frog first?
Pre-historic BONGS?!? Come on now... I suppose they had Pink Floyd and Iron Butterfly records too. Don’t forget the organic black lights! like, wow man...ungh!
And real lava lamps.
Yeah, they *had* those records, but the record player wouldn’t be invented for a couple of thousand years, so they couldn’t listen to them. Like the audiences of the 1960s, that didn’t seem to detract from their enjoyment.
“Stone Age man took drugs, say scientists”
This title should probably read “STONED OUT Age man took drugs”...oh dude.
Stoned Age ping
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