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

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

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

A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by ...

Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

The arrow came to light in a layer of sediments dating to 60,000 years ago, suggesting the artifact is just as old. Namely, ...

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

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

Previously, the oldest evidence of poison weapon use was found on 7,000-year-old "bone arrow points" from Kruger Cave in South Africa. Other older findings, such as the indirect evidence of a ...

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

AI crawlers visit websites and scrape data that ends up being used to train AI models, a parasitic relationship that has ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.