Researchers in Poland have hypothesized that warriors used spoon-like artifacts to administer drugs during Roman-period wartime.
How would you prepare for battle? If you were a Germanic warrior from Northern Europe during the Roman period, you may have sniffed some narcotics.
“We therefore asked ourselves whether the consumption of stimulants in the barbarian world of the Roman period was indeed absent,” the researchers wrote in the study. Since there wasn’t any direct evidence, they “decided to look for indirect clues.” Consequently, archaeologist Andrzej Kokowski and his colleagues hypothesized that Germanic warriors may have used the spoon-like objects to take stimulants with the aim of increasing exertion and reducing stress before diving into battle. Essentially, just another version of liquid courage.
To strengthen this theory, the team analyzed the possible stimulants that Germanic tribes could have accessed either locally or via trade during the Roman era. The possible list includes poppy, hemp, hops, belladonna, henbane, and numerous fungi, all of which could have been taken as a liquid or powder, and may have also been used for medicinal and/or ritualistic purposes, according to the study.
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