Caption: The 'pinwheel'.
(Rick Bury/David Robinson et al./Real Press)PINWHEEL CAVE, California — Ancient teenagers in what is now California ingested a hallucinogenic plant to help them “contact a supernatural plane" and “acquire power animals,” according to a new study.The discovery of a ceiling painting, believed to be of a Datura flower, and the subsequent research conducted at Pinwheel Cave, California, is the “first clear evidence” that hallucinogens were taken at a rock art site, said Dr. David Robinson, a lecturer in archeology at the University of Central Lancashire.(Melissa Dabulamanzi/David Robinson et al./Real Press)