Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Archaeologists excavating at Tadım Fortress and Höyük in eastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable stone seal dating back 7,500 years, pushing evidence of organized settlement in the Elazig region ...

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

Earliest evidence of poisoned arrows offers new insights into the advanced technology and strategic thinking of prehistoric ...

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

New research shows whale hunting in South America dates back 5,000 years, reshaping views of early maritime societies.

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...

Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...