Afterglow: Vilca Beer, Pro-Social Feelings, and Wari Geopolitics in the Ancient Andes
Revista de Arqueología Americana October 6, 2025 Jacob Keer, Justin Jennings
Although archaeologists increasingly consider the roles of psychedelics in past societies, there is little attention paid to their longer-term psychological impacts. One of these impacts is a neuroplasticity that may elicit enduring pro-social feelings. A beer laced with the psychedelic Anadenanthera colubrina (also known as vilca) was regularly consumed at feasts during the Wari Empire of...