An expedition in Peru's northern jungle discovered a fossilized leaves compact mass of snuff, in an area that corresponds geologically to the Pleistocene, which reveal that plant existed in Peru last 2.5 million years.
The director of the Paleontological Museum Hönningen Meyer, Klaus Hönningen and paleobotany expert Luis Cabrera found the layer of the Pleistocene era on Monday in the Maranon Basin, the Amazon region, with fossilized leaves concretions snuff , according to a statement sent Efe.
"This finding made in the high jungle of northern Peru to determine, first, that the origin of the plant dates back to the Pleistocene and confirm that snuff is a native of northern Peru," said the source.
botanical experts had determined that the source of the snuff was placed in the Andean region of Peru and Ecuador, because the findings of the first crops that were made between 5,000 and 3,000 years before our era, the source added.
addition to being smoked, the snuff is snorted, chewed, ate, drank, was smeared on the body, was used in eye drops and enemas were used by settlers before colonization (1492) in South America, explained the museum.
was also used in rituals warriors before the fight, spread on fields before planting, offered to the gods, poured on women before intercourse and used as a narcotic.
The said museum has several collections of animal and plant fossils will be exhibited from next year in a theme park in the northern city of Chiclayo.
Among the most important parts of future fossil museum contains a 18-meter shark named Megalodon long, known as a cat and a saber-toothed whale brain, including others.
The director of the Paleontological Museum Hönningen Meyer, Klaus Hönningen and paleobotany expert Luis Cabrera found the layer of the Pleistocene era on Monday in the Maranon Basin, the Amazon region, with fossilized leaves concretions snuff , according to a statement sent Efe.
"This finding made in the high jungle of northern Peru to determine, first, that the origin of the plant dates back to the Pleistocene and confirm that snuff is a native of northern Peru," said the source.
botanical experts had determined that the source of the snuff was placed in the Andean region of Peru and Ecuador, because the findings of the first crops that were made between 5,000 and 3,000 years before our era, the source added.
addition to being smoked, the snuff is snorted, chewed, ate, drank, was smeared on the body, was used in eye drops and enemas were used by settlers before colonization (1492) in South America, explained the museum.
was also used in rituals warriors before the fight, spread on fields before planting, offered to the gods, poured on women before intercourse and used as a narcotic.
The said museum has several collections of animal and plant fossils will be exhibited from next year in a theme park in the northern city of Chiclayo.
Among the most important parts of future fossil museum contains a 18-meter shark named Megalodon long, known as a cat and a saber-toothed whale brain, including others.
Source: EPA.
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