Archaeology of Intoxicants

Undergraduate

surveys the archaeological evidence for drug use from the Paleolithic to the present, and its role in wider social, political, economic and cultural processes. This evidence consists of material traces (plant remains, genetic and chemical residues, paraphernalia, depictions etc.) of the production, circulation and consumption of a wide array of intoxicants (tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, opium, cannabis, coca, peyote etc.).