The Oldest Evidence of Psychedelics in The Andes Predates The Inca : ScienceAlert

In the Peruvian Andes, thousands of years ago, humans were making liberal use of psychoactive drugs.

We know this for a fact: For the first time, direct chemical evidence of these drugs has been found, in residual traces left on the paraphernalia used for their consumption. It’s the earliest known human use of psychoactive drugs in the Andes.

That use was by a culture known as the Chavín who inhabited the region during the Middle-Late Formative Period between around 1200 and 400 BCE,…