Now, the discovery of traces of psychotropic plants in a Wari "brewery" has led researchers to suggest that the Wari may also have combined the two toxic substances to make a concoction with even greater political force.
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The discovery was made at the site of Quilcapampa, a Wari town in southern Peru, where the extremely arid environment preserved the remains of what the inhabitants ate and drank just before leaving the site at the end of the 9th century AD Here, archaeologists they found remains of potatoes, quinoa and peanuts from 1,100 years ago, as well as a staggering number of berry-like fruits from the molle tree (Schinus mole), which the Wari used to make chicha with an alcohol content of about 5 percent .
Among the soaked or boiled fruits that remained after making chicha were the psychotropic seeds of vilca (Anadenanthera colubrina). Archaeological evidence shows that vilca was used as a hallucinogen in ancient South America, but typically only by political and religious elites, says National Geographic explorer Justin Jennings, an archaeologist at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, and lead author of the study. study, funded in part by National Geographic.
