As It Happens6:39People were using psychedelic drugs in Bronze Age Europe, study finds
People have been using mind-altering substances for a long, long time.
While archaeologists and historians have long suspected that people in Bronze Age Europe consumed psychoactive drugs, they now have hard scientific evidence to back it up.
And it’s all thanks to several tiny strands of human hair found impeccably preserved in a 3,000-year-old burial site in Spain.
Those hairs, researchers have found, contain traces of three different alkaloid substances that are known to cause altered states of consciousness.
“It was amazing,” Rafael Mico, a professor of archeological pre-history at the Autonomous University of
