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

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A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years.

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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 use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.