Seeking
That Caffeine Buzz for More Than a Thousand Years
It’s one of
those identifying flashes that connect us instantly with the past. As early
as 1050 A.D. inhabitants of North America, specifically east of St. Louis,
MO. were seeking out, brewing and ritually drinking in copious
quantities a substance anthropologists are calling Black Drink. They
probably did this before conducting any important activities. The drinkers were probably mostly men and
the beverage they were drinking was made from leaves and twigs of species of
holly (Ilex vomitoria, Ilex cassine). They consumer it from ritual
vessels like these beakers.
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