Recent archaeobotanical findings of the hallucinogenic snuff cojoba (Anadenanthera peregrina (L.) Speg.) in precolonial Puerto Rico

Latin American Antiquity

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 101-116

  Pagán Jiménez, Jaime R ^a,b   Carlson, Lisabeth A ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural   (Ecuador)

^c Southeastern Archaeological Research Inc   (United States)

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EID: 84907595290     PISSN: 10456635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7183/1045-6635.25.1.101     Document Type: Article

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