An ancient society in the Peruvian Andes probably used exclusive rituals of psychoactive drugs that may have helped social and political hierarchies observed later through the region, according to a new study.
The prehistoric meetings of Chavín People Hero Private and Potntiathy, where elite figures used “tobacco tubes” to consume tobacco and waste of hallucinogenic plants with property or DMT, which can be found in a wide variety of templates, the study published Monday published on Monday Academy of Sciences. When inserted, DMT causes lyrics, episodic visual hallucinations, according to the National Health Institute.
The study was conducted to a group of archaeologists and researchers led by Daniel Contreras, anthropologist and professor at the University of Florida, who sought to investigate a practice composed of Chavín de Age in the ritual of the culture of the Volved Party party. To do that, Contreras and his team explored and analyzed artifacts found in Chavín de Huántar, a UNESCO World Heritage Site In the Andean highlands about 250 miles to the north or lime.
Made of stone, it is believed that the ruins that date up to 1200 a. C., Chavín occupied that site and region more widely around 400 or 500 a. C. and are considered an important predecessor for the best known Incawown.
While previous investigations have pointed out the ritual activity in Chavín de Huántar, and Chavín’s iconography raised questions about whether psychedelic plants were involved, the new study offered material evidence of thattherings.
In Chavín de Huántar, archaeologists discovered a hidden network or Roman that they called galleries, built in the largest stone complex. Within them, the team found 23 artifacts that were believed for drug paraphernalia, mainly tubes built from the bones of the birds that the researchers, according to the researchers, functioned as equipment for inhalation.
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The chemical tests carried out later in these tubes revealed that six of them contained traces of hallucinogenic substance dimethylectamine, or DMT, a powerful psychedelic that naturally occurs in plants and animals. In four of the six articles, the researchers said they found micro -related micro -related roots in Nicotiana’s wild species, also known as tobacco plants, as well as seeds and leaves or vilca plants similar to tobacco.
Although research on the effects of medication in humans largely recognizes the gaps in how medical and scientific fields currently understand the reaction of the body to it, some reports indicate that DMT causes a vision of Tootse Tootse Tootse Tootse Temporary and intense and hallucinogenic revelations.
The Contreras team held in its study that the tubes discovered in Chavín de Huántar may not have been used exclusively for psychotropic rituals. But, when those rituals took place, they said that the small size of the rooms where they found suggests that only certain members of the Chavín society were invited to the party.
“The galleries were foci of ritual activity, access and content of which were controlled and institutionally administered,” the study authors wrote. “According to the evidence presented here, we can now infer strongly not only that ritual in Chavín involved the consumption of psychoactive ones, but more specifically than the ritual place of ritual activity activity in the galleries, the main accessories of accessories of accessories of accessories of accessory accessories.
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