Stone(d) Age: The First High

The Stoned Age is a quick trip back to prehistory to explore our oldest drugs and where they fit into the very fabric of being human. From “caveman meth” to mushroom-headed shamans, this episode looks at how we know prehistoric people used drugs—and why they mattered. Along the way, we dig into mummies, cave art, Neanderthals, and Mormonism.Sources: The oldest archeological data evidencing the relationship of Homo sapiens with psychoactive plants: A worldwide overviewDirect evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age Menorca (Western Mediterranean) from human hair analysisLate pleistocene exploitation of Ephedra in a funerary context in MoroccoThe dangers of the herb ephedra