Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock ...

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

The research team identified chemical residues of poison from gifbol, a poisonous plant still used by traditional hunters in ...

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...

The world’s oldest poisoned arrows - dating back 60,000 years - have been identified. The discovery reveals early advanced ...

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Scientists have just identified the oldest traces of arrow poison on 60,000-year-old quartz arrows unearthed in South Africa.

For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...

Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting ...

Researchers have identified traces of plant poison from the South African plant gifbol on Stone Age arrowheads – the oldest ...