2,400-Year-Old Drug Paraphernalia Found in West Indies

fall into place to viewThe citizenry who nail down the Caribbean Islands over 1500 age ago bring in with them particular ceramic bowl ( exchangeable to those depict ) for holding hallucinogenic drug that they sniff through long , ceramic straws . More surprising than their modern drug ritual , however , is the fact that these “ sniffing trough ” were already hundreds of years sometime when the colonist come in the West Indies . It turns out that one of the most ancient forms of the family heirloom was a roll used for assume drug . A new study by North Carolina State archeologist Scott Fitzpatrick let on that the South Americans who colonize the island of Carriacou arrive with sniff bowls that had been made sometime between 400 and 100 BC . Because the island was colonized in 400 AD , that would mean these drug sports stadium had been in the colonist ’ crime syndicate for possibly 800 years before they voyage for the West Indies . According to a forthcoming composition co - authored by Fitzpatrick in the Journal of Archaeological Science :

The research team used a dating technique called glow to determine the age of several artifacts found on the Caribbean island of Carriacou . . . glow testing involve ignite a substance and measuring the amount of light it give off to determine how long ago it was last heated .

Though scholars have long think that colonists of the West Indies brought heirlooms with them , this is the first forcible test copy . grounds for Inter - Island Transport of Heirlooms[via Journal of Archaeological Science ]

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