Thousands of years ago, a child in Peru was sacrificed as part of an ancient ritual, their head severed at the neck and made into a type of trophy.
A new analysis of a single hair plucked from the mummy's skull reveals that the child consumed a psychoactive cactus prior to execution, as part of the ceremony.
While scientists are uncertain of the child victim's sex and age at death, they reported that the child had ingested San Pedro cactus , a prickly plant taken for its"strong hallucinogenic properties" and used by indigenous civilizations of the Americas in traditional medicines and during rituals. "It's also the first evidence that some of the victims who were made into trophy heads were given stimulants before they died."
Those ingested items included coca leaves, known as a source of the psychoactive substance cocaine, as well as San Pedro cactus , which contains mescaline, a psychedelic drug.the main compound in ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic beverage that contains harmine and harmaline ."It was quite interesting to see how many people had access to [these plants]," Socha said.
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