AntiquitySeptember 1, 2010S. Mitchell, Neil Price, R. Hutton et al.
Archaeology, consistently warned off religion by wise old heads, here rushes deeper into the thicket to tackle the thorny topic of ancient witchcraft. The occasion was a seminar at Harvard organised by Stephen Mitchell and Neil Price to mark the twentieth anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg's influential book on the connections between witches and shamanism – and by implication the possible...
AntiquityMarch 1, 2000D. J. Long, R. Tipping, T. G. Holden et al.
Were drugs in use in prehistory? Recent claims for the use of hallucinogenic substances have been made, and caused a stir. However, new work on a Scottish Neolithic ceremonial site suggests archaeologists (and the media) may have been jumping to the wrong conclusions!
Had you been a young boy in the 1960s and wanted to try for yourself the psychedelic experience written about in books such as The doors of perception, how would you have acquired the necessary 'drugs'?f-'AIJL DEVEKE~JX wrote to Aldous Huxley and amazingly Huxley replied.Whilst Huxley could not supply, in this case mescaline, he wished him well in his quest, and by his 21sl birthday two small...