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Did the vilca/tobacco snuff combination at Chavín aim for an “ayahuasca effect”?

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Ancient Psychedelics and Ritual Practice

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

A 2025 PNAS letter that documents an interpretive question about combining vilca and tobacco; use as debate provenance, not as a correction or retraction of the direct identifications in the original study.

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Ancient Psychedelics and Ritual Practice

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The catalog directly documents Menorca alkaloids, cannabis burned at Jirzankal Cemetery, and vilca or Nicotiana evidence from Chavín; broader plant lists require separate sources.

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The listed cases support psychoactive exposure in specific mortuary or institutional ritual settings; exact experience, dose, practitioner, and meaning remain unresolved.

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Chavín evidence supports psychoactive plants within controlled ritual architecture; any causal mechanism linking ingestion to political authority remains interpretive.

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