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		<title>Drug use in prehistory..?</title>
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		<description>Following the discovery of 'Ergot' at the Hypogeum on Malta, and Cannabis residues at Gavrinis, France, it seems worth discussing the role of drugs in relation to the megaliths.</description>
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			<title>New page added to site. Drugs and Shamanism.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[For more on these subjects follow these links:
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<a href="http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/prehistoricdrugs.htm" target="_blank">Drug use in Prehistory.</a>
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<a href="http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/shamanism.htm" target="_blank">Shamanism and drug use.</a>
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Alex.]]></description>
			<category>Drug use in prehistory..?</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 09:48:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Drugs and the Eleusian Mysteries.</title>
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			<dc:creator>English-Al.</dc:creator>
			<description>Extract from wikipedia.com:



'Some scholars believe that the power of the Eleusinian Mysteries came from the kykeon's functioning as a psychedelic agent. (20) Barley may be parasitized by the fungus ergot, which contains the psychoactive alkaloids lysergic acid amide (LSA), a precursor to LSD and ergonovine. It is possible that a psychoactive potion was created using known methods of the day. The initiates, sensitized by their fast and prepared by preceding ceremonies, may have been propelled  ...</description>
			<category>Drug use in prehistory..?</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:59:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>drugs in megalithic sites</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Do you think that the remains of the drugs found at some of the ancient sites were left by the BUILDERS of these sites, or by people visiting at later periods? Do you have 'confirmed' proof of who it was? (eg at Gavriness and Hypergeum?)
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Is there any evidence of drugs at other sites that you know of?]]></description>
			<category>Drug use in prehistory..?</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:22:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>What were they smoking in Egypt.</title>
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			<dc:creator>English-Al.</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[This picture comes from the temple at Denderra..
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<img src="http://ancient-wisdom.co.uk/Images/countries/Egyptian%20pics/Egypt%20one%20043a.jpg" alt="" />]]></description>
			<category>Drug use in prehistory..?</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:13:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Tiwanaku, Tiahuanaco, Mexico.</title>
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			<dc:creator>English-Al.</dc:creator>
			<description>Found this reference to drug use in Prehistoric Mexico. 



Highly decorated snuffing tablets and tubes are often found as grave goods during the periods 3,4,5,6,7,8. Until now the type of drugs consumed in this paraphernalia has been unclear. From the modern city of Arica, naturally mummified human bodies with abundant hair provided a unique opportunity to test for hallucinogenic plants consumed in Andean prehistory. Analysis by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry demonstrated the presence  ...</description>
			<category>Drug use in prehistory..?</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:25:08 GMT</pubDate>
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