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

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 ...

Researchers have identified traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads - making it the oldest known arrow poison in the ...

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

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

Learn how microscopic chemical traces preserved on stone tools are revealing new details about early human hunting practices.

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

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This documentary examines how Stone Age weapons inflicted extreme physical damage at close range. Archaeological evidence ...

Around 5,000 years ago, people in what is now Iran began turning dull stone into shining metal. By heating copper ore until ...