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Archeology of psychoactive sources: between iconological studies and chemical analyses
archeology, base ring juglet, Chumash, Eleusinian Mysteries, ergot, gas chromatography, jimsonweed, mass spectrometry, opium poppy, phosphene, Pinwheel Cave, Porto Badisco, pottery and Daunian stelae, rock artBy: MARIA LAURA LEONE – In recent years, microanalytical chemistry is making decisive contributions to the identification of psychoactive sources in archaeological contexts in different parts of the world. Most of the cases presented in this article were preceded and motivated by iconological studies which, directly or indirectly, were based on the reading of art,…
Etnografia delle dature in Africa
africa, alkangaudé, bori, datura, Ethiopia, hausa, jimsonweed, khomba, leba shay, marabout, mozambique, senegal, tsongaBy: GIORGIO SAMORINI – Daturas belong to the tropane Solanaceous group of plants, traditionally used in the Old and New World for their intoxicant properties. In Africa two species – Datura stramonium, and D. metel – are used in religious, initiatory, divinatory, magic-therapeutic rites, and also as tools during trials by ordeal, in courts of…