MENORCA, Spain — Hallucinogenic drugs may be a popular topic of discussion today, but a new study finds evidence that they’ve been all the rage for thousands of years. Long before NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers started talking about the benefits of using psychedelics like ayahuasca, researchers in Spain say ancient Europeans were apparently experimenting with hallucinogens back in Bronze Age caves — roughly 3,000 years ago.
The team discovered strands of human hair at a burial site in Menorca, Spain which contain traces of hallucinogens derived from plants. The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, are the first pieces of direct evidence that ancient humans used primitive drugs. They add that Bronze Age Europeans may have been taking hallucinogenic drugs as part of a ritualistic ceremony.
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