Almost 2,500 years before the opening of the first French “shooting room”, opened in October 2016 in Paris, several occupants of Chavín de Huántar, an archaeological site located in the northwest of Peru, already used to consume drugs collectively in a well -defined room. This is the conclusion of a study by the University of Florida (United States), published Monday in PNAS magazine and informed by Live Science.
To achieve these results, the researchers analyzed 23 artifacts in the form of tubes, carved in bones and animal shells, found in a gallery sealed around 500 a. C. ad and reopened during the archaeological excavations carried out in 2017. When carrying out an analysis of the chemical waste they still contained, the scientists discovered that six of them contained several organic compounds, including nicotine, tobacco and dimethythythythythythiptamine (DMT), a natural hallucinogenic drug, … … …