History of Coca

"Modern archaeology suggests that descendants of nomadic Siberian people may have established communities in the Andes Mountains as early as 10,000 B.C.E.³⁷ Aymara-speaking tribes migrated to the Bolivian altiplano³⁸ around 700 B.C.E, and sometime after 700 B.C.E, Andean people began growing coca in the altiplano.³⁹ Before the Spanish conquest, Indians of eastern Bolivia grew coca for tea, chewing, and ritual use."