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Ancient psychoactive substances / edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychotropic drugs--History.
- Psychotropic drugs.
- Hallucinogenic drugs--History.
- Hallucinogenic drugs.
- Altered states of consciousness--History.
- Altered states of consciousness.
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience--History.
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.
- Drug abuse--History.
- Drug abuse.
- History.
- Alcoholism--History.
- Alcoholism.
- Psychotropic Drugs--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychotropic Drugs--history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
- Summary:
- This book details the traditional and sacred use of psychoactive substances by peoples in the ancient past through the lens of archaeology.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Drugs from a deep time perspective / Scott M. Fitzpatrick
- Cannabis in ancient central Eurasian burials / Mark D. Merlin and Robert C. Clarke
- Intoxication on the wine dark sea: investigating psychoactive substances in the eastern Mediterranean / Zuzana Chovanec
- Ancient use of ephedra in the Eurasia and the western hemisphere / Mark D. Merlin
- Prehistoric intoxicants of North America / Sean M. Rafferty
- Pipes, cups, platform mounds, and mortuary ritual in the lake
- Okeechobee basin of South Florida / Victor D. Thompson and Thomas J. Pluckhahn
- Power from, power to, power over ritual drug-taking and the social context of power among the indigenous people of the Caribbean / Quetta Kaye
- Intoxication rituals and gender among the ancient Maya / Daniel M. Seinfeld
- Mayan ritual beverage production: considering the ceramics / Jennifer Loughmiller-Cardinal
- The origins of the Ayahuasca/Yage concept: an inquiry into the synergy between DMT and? carbolines / Constantino Manuel Torres
- A synonym for sacred: vilca use in the pre-conquest Andes / Matthew P. Sayre
- Ingredients matter: maize versus molle brewing in ancient Andes feasting / Justin Jennings and Lidio M. Valdez.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780813056708
- 0813056705
- OCLC:
- 982538474
- Publisher Number:
- 99975437468
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