Researchers have long imagined a correlation between psychotropic substance and cave art but they did not have any substantial proof until recently.
A new study, published on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Nov. 23, provides evidence that native Californian cave artists took hallucinogenic plants when creating rock paintings.
Archaeologists have long thought that native tribes were in the habit of eating Datura wrightii concoctions to enter a trance state during religious ceremonies. However, they had never managed to determine the origin of the abstract, even psychedelic images that these ancient cultures painted on cliff and cave walls.
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