Is This the World's Oldest Image of a Mind-Altering Plant?
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A painted panel in El Castillo cave in northern Spain, created 17,000 to 15,000 years ago, may depict psychoactive nightshade flowers—potentially the oldest known image of a mind-altering plant, thousands of years earlier than previously known examples.
This is an interpretation by the author; other archaeologists have proposed different readings of these bell-shaped signs, including earlier frameworks interpreting them as female symbols.
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