The painting that best supports the mushroom hypothesis is the "Tassili mushroom figure Matalem-Amazar" where the body of the represented shaman is covered with mushrooms. According to Earl Lee in his book "From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants and the Cults of the Dead" (2012), this imagery refers to an ancient episode where a "mushroom shaman" was buried while fully-clothed and when unearthed some time later, tiny mushrooms would be growing on the clothes. Earl Lee considered the mushroom paintings at Tassili fairly realistic.