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Sixty thousand years ago, humans in southern Africa were already mastering nature’s chemistry. Scientists have discovered ...
Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in South Africa about 60,000 years ago. The find marks the oldest known poison arrows and ...
Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South ...
Prior to the discovery of poison residue on the Umhlatuzana arrow tips, the earliest direct evidence of poison on hunting tools came from bone-tipped arrows in an Egyptian tomb 4,431 to 4,000 years ...
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