Genuinely groundbreaking work in psychedelic anthropology here! I understand that this is the first well-documented case of indigenous psilocybin use outside of the Americas.
Fieldwork led by
@eselster.bsky.social under @manvir.bsky.social
also w/ Sandeep Nayak and myself
existwell
People claim that psychedelics have been used by Indigenous groups around the world for millennia. But clear evidence of serotonergic psychedelic use has long been confined to the Americas.
Until now. Here, we document clear evidence of Indigenous psilocybin use in Lesotho. 🍄
osf.io/preprints/so...
