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

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

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

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Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the earliest direct chemical proof ancient humans employed poison on ...

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

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Researchers have found traces of what appears to be plant-derived poison on tiny stone arrowheads from South Africa dated to ...

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

The study authors conclude that these Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers were making their poison from the gifbol root bulb ...