Researchers have discovered the earliest known evidence of poison tipped arrowheads, pushing back the timeline of toxic ...
The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...
Around 60,000 years ago, people in southern Africa were already using poisoned arrows as part of their hunting strategies.
Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...
Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in South Africa ...
The quartz arrowheads were collected from sediment at Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa dated to the ...
Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest arrow poison on 60,000-year-old tools in South Africa, revealing early human ...
The finding in South Africa identifies toxic alkaloids in these projectiles, used for hunting during the Paleolithic era ...
A new find in South Africa has revealed that humans have been using poison arrows for hunting far longer than originally ...
New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.
Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock ...
Researchers have identified traces of plant poison from the South African plant gifbol on Stone Age arrowheads – the oldest ...