Alucinógenos y sociedades indígenas del noroeste argentino

Abstract

Native americans used hallucinogens for religious and therapeulic purposes. A study of their use in the Argentinian northeast, has solved archaeological questions, For example, we can now explain some of the relationships of the eastern lowlands with the far western highlands of the Andes. This article presents botanical,
archaeological, ethnographic and historical information about cebil (Anadenanthera colubrina) and other plants, that had great comercial and ritual functions. The role of the jaguar in the
hallucinogenic complex is shown, along with the artifacts used
for their use: snuffboxes, nasal aspirators, small flasks, etcetera.