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Mushrooms, Drugs, and Potters: A New Approach to the Function of Precolumbian Mesoamerican Mushroom Stones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ulrich Kôhler
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Abstract

The function of archaeological mushroom stones has been subject to various speculations. Recently their explanation as ritual objects, associated with the ceremonial consumption of hallucinogenic mushrooms, seems on its way to general acceptance. The subsequent analysis refutes such an interpretation and reveals their real function as potters’ molds.

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American Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , April 1976 , pp. 145 - 153
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1976

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