ISSN 0188-3631
5 papers in the library · publishing 2025-2026
Revista de Arqueología Americana July 10, 2026 Constantino Manuel Torres
Este segundo volumen de la Revista de Arqueología Americana dedicado al tema de sustancias visionarias y arqueología. El uso de plantas visionarias en América no se limita a la época prehispánica, continúa a través del periodo colonial, la era republicana, y el siglo XXI. Por eso, en este volumen incluimos cuestiones de uso doméstico y transmisión del conocimiento y uso de estas plantas dentro...
Revista de Arqueología Americana July 10, 2026 Stacy B. Schaefer
El peyote (Lophophora williamsii) es un cactus psicoactivo con una larga historia en el centro de las creencias religiosas, las prácticas curativas y el significado transformador que experimentan diversos pueblos indígenas de México y América del Norte. Los wixárika (indios huicholes) tienen la historia más larga conocida de uso continuo del peyote, mientras que las prácticas relacionadas con...
Revista de Arqueología Americana July 10, 2026 Giorgio Samorini
For over five decades, there has been a significant quantitative discrepancy between the traditional knowledge of psychoactive plants of Old World and New World. While some 20th century scholars believed that it was motivated by cultural differences between the populations of the two regions of the globe, this consideration failed to take into account that the acquisition of awareness of the...
Revista de Arqueología Americana July 10, 2026 Jonathan Ott
This article encompasses the mythology and shamanic ethnobotany (or entheobotany) of coca (Erythroxylum coca Lamarck, Erythroxylum novogranatense [Morris] Hieronymus [each having two varieties—var. coca Lamarck and var. ipadu Plowman; and var. novogranatense (Morris) Plowman and var. truxillense (Rusby) Plowman; respectively], and likewise several wild Eryth- roxylum-species which may be...
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...