Barbarians in Roman time are likely are to have consumed drugs before battles suggests new academic research.
The study identified and categorized 241 small spoon-shaped objects found at 116 different archaeological sites — marshes and graves, mostly — in Scandinavia, Germany and Poland that date to the days of the Roman empire. The study suggests that the most likely use for the spoons — which were invariably found among items used in warfare, and had a small disk 10 millimeters to 20 millimeters across — was to dose out drugs before battles, especially stimulants. Germanic people of the time had access to all sorts of proto-pharmaceuticals, including poppy, hops, hemp, henbane, belladonna and various fungi.
Source: Phys.org
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