Peyote Alkaloids: Identification in a Prehistoric Specimen of Lophophora from Coahuila, Mexico
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 radio-carbon dates of A.D. 810 to 1070 and is one of the oldest materials ever submitted to alkaloid analysis.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- March 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.199.4336.1437
- Bibcode:
- 1978Sci...199.1437B