Science 1978-Mar

Peyote alkaloids: identification in a prehistoric specimen of lophophora from coahuila, Mexico.

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J G Bruhn

J E Lindgren

B Holmstedt

J M Adovasio

ARTICLE: 17796678

DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4336.1437

BioSeek: 17796678

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Abstract

Mescaline, anhalonine, lophophorine, pellotine, and anhalonidine have been identified in alkaloid extracts of a prehistoric specimen of Lophophora from a burial cave in west central Coahuila, Mexico. The specimen is associated with radiocarbon dates of A.D. 810 to 1070 and is one of the oldest materials ever submitted to alkaloid analysis.

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Peyote alkaloids: identification in a prehistoric specimen of lophophora from coahuila, Mexico.

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lophophora

pellotine

mescaline

lophophorine

alkaloid

anhalonidine

anhalonine

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