ISSN 1045-6635
4 papers in the library · 22 citations · publishing 1995-2019
Latin American Antiquity March 1, 2019 J. Gasco
The two volumes reviewed here examine specific plants and fungi that humans used in the past and present and that are either psychoactive (they alter the perceptions of the user) or “heighten sensory experience and amplify the perceived properties of things” (Marcy Norton, foreword to Schwartzkopf and Sampeck). These substances are ingested in some way, but they are not dietary staples. There...
Latin American Antiquity December 1, 2010 Juan Pablo Ogalde, Bernardo Arriaza, Elia C. Soto 4 citations
Resumen Este trabajo discute el uso de plantas psicoactivas en el Valle de Azapa del norte de Chile. Al respecto, en el norte de Chile existen evidencias arqueológicas materiales tempranas e ininterrumpidas relacionadas con prácticas psicoactivas en torno a la Anadenanthera, acompañadas de evidencia química que consigna el consumo de Erythroxylum. En este contexto, se evalúa el consumo de...
Latin American Antiquity June 1, 1996 Carolyn E. Boyd
AbstractA spatial analysis of rock art located within the lower Pecos region of southwest Texas and northern Mexico reveals the presence of a recurring motif that depicts anthropomorphic figures passing through an opening in a serpentine arch. An extensive review of the ethnographic literature and archaeological record of cultures within Mesoamerica and the Gran Chichimeca indicates that this...
Latin American Antiquity December 1, 1995 William A. Haviland, Anita de Laguna Haviland 18 citations
Application of a neuropsychological model, developed in the laboratory, to the graffiti of Tikal reveals that the great majority of the latter are products of altered states of consciousness, depictions of visions seen by people in states of trance in relatively private settings. Beneath this art's apparent surface disorder and haphazard arrangement lies a definite neuropsychological order....