Chemical evidence for the use of multiple psychotropic plants in a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle from South America.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America June 4, 2019 Melanie J Miller, Juan Albarracin-Jordan, Christine K. Moore et al. 171 citations
Over several millennia, various native plant species in South America have been used for their healing and psychoactive properties. Chemical analysis of archaeological artifacts provides an opportunity to study the use of psychoactive plants in the past and to better understand ancient botanical knowledge systems. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was used to analyze...