Wednesday, December 4, 2024

"Barbarian warriors in Roman times used stimulants in battle, findings suggest"

Ditto for the gang-raping Hamas torture-murderers and probably for the Norse Berserkers.

From PhysOrg, December 4:

Small, spoon-shaped objects found on the end of warriors' belts at archaeological sites across northern Europe could have been used to dispense stimulants before battle, a study suggests.

The widespread use of narcotics, such as opium, in ancient Greece and Rome is well-documented in ancient sources and supported by . However, this body of evidence is missing for the barbarian peoples living outside the Roman Empire, and it is generally assumed that they made little use of drugs apart from alcohol.

Now, analyses by archaeologist Prof. Andrzej Kokowski and biologists from Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland, shed a different light on these issues.

The researchers identified and categorized 241 small, spoon-shaped objects found at 116 sites dating from the Roman period, primarily marsh sites and graves in modern-day Scandinavia, Germany and Poland. The objects have handles, mostly between 40 and 70mm long, and either a concave bowl or flat disk measuring 10 to 20mm across. They were attached to a man's belt, but played no role in its functioning....

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Germanic warrior taking stimulants imagined by Stanislav(StanisÅ‚aw) Kontny, especially 
for the Praehistorische Zeitschrift. Credit: Stanisław Kontny for Praehistorische Zeitschrift

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The Nazis were big on Pervitin (pharmaceutical methamphetamine) while the Americans (and British) preferred Benzedrine and later in Vietnam, Dexedrine (go pills)