Jack Russells are the blood-tracking breed preferred by many South African big-game hunters for their grit and skill ...

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

Superstitious? Nah. But these are the rituals we perform and the charms we bring along on all our hunts—just in case.

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...

Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in ...

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

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

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

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

A collection of arrow points excavated in South Africa has provided the oldest direct evidence of hunters deploying ...

South Africa needs to track whether beneficiaries of land reform policies are participating in the country’s thriving ...