New research suggests that early humans may have butchered elephants as far back as 1.8 million years ago, reshaping our ...

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

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

Archaeologists in the Australian outback have discovered a stash of dozens of stone tools. According to a study published in the journal Archaeology in Oceania, these artifacts are 170-year-old “tulas ...

Are these some of the earliest weapons in human history? History Hit’s Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr Annemieke Milks, Researcher at the University of Reading, about the significance of the Schöningen ...

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 ...

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

Trail hunting is set to be banned in England and Wales as part of a new animal welfare strategy to be published by the government on Monday. The practice sees an animal-based scent trail laid for dogs ...

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