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Science 31 March 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4336, pp. 1437 - 1438
DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4336.1437
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Peyote Alkaloids: Identification in a Prehistoric Specimen of Lophophora from Coahuila, Mexico

J. G. BRUHN 1, J.-E. LINDGREN 1, B. HOLMSTEDT 1, and J. M. ADOVASIO 2

1 Department of Toxicology, Swedish Medical Research Council, Karolinska Institute, S-104 01 Stockholm
2 Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260

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.

Submitted on December 2, 1977

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