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<< Text Pages >> Selva Pascuala cave mural - Cave or Rock Shelter in Spain in Castilla La Mancha y Madrid

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Natural PlacesSite Name: Selva Pascuala cave mural
Country: Spain Region: Castilla La Mancha y Madrid Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Villar del Humo
Latitude: 39.932381N  Longitude: 1.673097W
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4Short walk on a footpath
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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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Re: Selva Pascuala cave mural by Andy B on Thursday, 05 May 2011
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Also in the Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1364259/Selva-Pascuala-cave-murals-man-used-magic-mushrooms-6-000-years-ago.html
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