The Boeslunde gold-decorated iron lances, 2,800 years old and found in Zealand, represent Denmark's earliest iron weapons.

Chemical traces on 60,000-year-old stone arrowheads from South Africa suggest ancient hunters used plant poison.

Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in ...

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

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, thanks to the stratified layers of guano-based sediment. This is in contrast ...

These weren’t just sharpened rocks. Stone Age weapons were engineered for one thing—damage. From flint daggers to barbed points, early humans built for survival and war Impeachment Articles Promised ...

Late in Queens of the Stone Age‘s strange and wonderful night in Hollywood on Tuesday, singer Josh Homme paused to state the obvious. “I know it’s all a bit strange and unusual, and a little ...

Stone is “making a comeback” in the building industry after years of being “forgotten”, said the BBC. With clear benefits to the environment, such as a lower carbon footprint than other traditional ...

In a discovery that changes our understanding of Scotland's earliest farming communities, archaeologists from GUARD Archaeology have uncovered the remains of what they describe in a report as an ...