April
09
/ 2021
Getting stoned, or high, has always been a way to escape the pressures of day-to-day reality. However, modern artists and psychonauts are at the end of a long chain of stoners that apparently began with subterranean artists working in caves who were starved of oxygen and thus “high.” A team of Tel Aviv University archaeologists have published a new paper published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture showing that subterranean artists working in deep caves, 50,000 to 12,000 years ago, were likely intoxicated while doing so. What is special about these particular Upper-Paleolithic art works is that the chances are high that the artists were also high. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"85058","attributes":{"alt":"Subterranean artists painted cave scenes like this one
