Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in South Africa ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Africa applied deadly poisons to their stone arrows 60,000 years ago. Amazingly, the ...

Around 60,000 years ago, people in southern Africa were already using poisoned arrows as part of their hunting strategies.

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

A nearly 10,000-year-old pyre discovered in Africa has revealed the country’s oldest cremation. In a study published in the ...

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

The finding in South Africa identifies toxic alkaloids in these projectiles, used for hunting during the Paleolithic era ...

Arrowheads excavated from the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal contain traces of poison from the gifbol plant.

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

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The modern world offers an abundance of convenience foods. But our Stone Age physiology isn't built for modern diets, which ...