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A study identified evidence of "use of psychoactive plants in institutionalized ritual in the first millennium BCE 🌿🌌, demonstrating that even in their early stages, sociopolitically complex societies incorporated psychoactive plants into ritual activity."
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#PsychoactivePlants #AncientRituals #CulturalHeritage #SociopoliticalComplexity #HistoricalStudies
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Pre-Hispanic ritual use of psychoactive plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
Ritual is broadly accepted as an important locus of social interaction in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes, and research into the development of dura...
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