Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...

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Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting ...

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 ...