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Natural PlacesSite Name: Selva Pascuala cave muralCountry: Spain
NOTE: This site is 9.781 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Castilla La Mancha y Madrid Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Villar del Humo
Latitude: 39.932381N Longitude: 1.673097W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The Selva Pascuala mural, in a cave near the town of Villar del Humo, is dominated by a bull. But it is a row of 13 small mushroom-like objects that interests Brian Akers at Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Florida, and Gaston Guzman at the Ecological Institute of Xalapa in Mexico. They believe that the objects are the fungi Psilocybe hispanica, a local species with hallucinogenic properties.
Like the objects depicted in the mural, P. hispanica has a bell-shaped cap topped with a dome, and lacks an annulus - a ring around the stalk. "Its stalks also vary from straight to sinuous, as they do in the mural," says Akers (source: Economic Botany, DOI: 10.1007/s12231-011-9152-5).
This isn't the oldest prehistoric painting thought to depict magic mushrooms, though. An Algerian mural that may show the species Psilocybe mairei is 7000 to 9000 years old.
More, with an image of the cave art at New Scientist. Also see below for photos from Panoramio.
Note: The Selva Pascuala cave mural in Spain may contain the oldest evidence for the ritualistic use of Psilocybe mushrooms in Europe.
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