EarlyHumans on MSN

The technological revolution of the Iron Age

The Iron Age marked a major technological shift in human history. Iron tools were cheaper and stronger than bronze. This allowed wider access to weapons and farming equipment. Societies expanded ...

Cavemen hunted with biological weapons 60,000 years ago

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

Archaeologists find earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by humans

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

Study finds oldest example of humans using poison-laced weapons

Archaeologists find earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by humans - Prehistoric humans had advanced planning abilities ...

60,000-year-old poison arrows from South Africa are the oldest poison weapons ever discovered

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