Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to ...

Within Africa, there is evidence of burned human remains at a 7,500-year-old site in Egypt, although these are not associated ...

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

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

Ancient African hunter-gatherers cremated a woman 9,500 years ago, revealing complex rituals and challenging assumptions ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

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

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

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

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

New evidence of cremation 9,500 years ago in south-central Africa challenges long-held notions about how hunter-gatherers ...

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