Humans who lived 1,000 years ago could never have imagined the incredible advancements the subsequent centuries would bring. What we consider to be our mundane daily routines would be utterly mind-blowing to our distant ancestors but, as a new discovery in South America makes perfectly clear, humans who roamed the continent 1,000 years ago had some of the same vices that we do today.
A new research paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the discovery of what archaeologists are calling a “ritual bundle” which contained a number of psychotropic substances, including cocaine and possibly magic mushrooms.
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Archaeologists found 1,000-year-old cocaine in an ancient drug stash originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 7 May 2019 at 15:48:46 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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