Alcohol and its Role in the Evolution of Human Society by Ian S Hornsey

Author:Ian S Hornsey [Hornsey, Ian S]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781782626251
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Published: 2016-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

Figure 5.2 Acetylandromedol.

Ott12 has made a case for the fact that, in olden times, toxic honeys may well have served as pointers for people searching for medicinal and other useful plants. As he puts it: “I suggest that immemorial pursuit of wild honey, the only concentrated sweet which occurs naturally, could have led inexorably to the discovery of psychoactive and other toxic honeys, while subsequent observation of bees’ foraging habits could easily have led preliterate shaman/pharmacognosists to single out toxic plant species even against a background of extreme biodiversity, as in Amazonia.”

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