Ancient Peruvians partied hard, spiked their beer with hallucinogens to win friends
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Wari
Dickinson College
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the Ars Orbital Transmission
CNMN Collection
WIRED Media Group
Condé Nast
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Jennifer Ouellette
Quilcapampa
Matthew Biwer
Vilca
DMT
Ars
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Peruvian
Wari
Amazonian
Incan
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Middle Horizon
South America
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Peru
Ayacucho
Argentina
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Summary
Recent excavations at a remote Wari outpost called Quilcapampa unearthed seeds from the vilca tree that can be used to produce a potent hallucinogenic drug. The use of hallucinogens, particularly a substance derived from the seeds of the vilca tree, was common in the region during the so-called Middle Horizon period, when the Wari empire thrived.Vilca typically grows in the dry tropical forests in the region. A 4,000-year-old pipe laced with bufotenine residue and related paraphernalia was found in an Incan cave in Argentina in 1999—the oldest archaeological evidence to date for using vilca in South America.There is also evidence from historical accounts that a juice or tea derived from vilca seeds was sometimes added to chicha, a fermented beverage made from maize or the fruits of the molle tree native to Peru.
As said here by Jennifer Ouellette