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A team of archaeologists working in South Africa has discovered a hoard of 60,000-year-old arrowheads affixed with a surprising, and extra-fatal, security feature. Archaeologists found 60,000-year-old ...

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Researchers analyzed 60,000-year-old arrowheads found in South Africa and discovered they had been tinged with poison. This is the earliest known case of poison-enhanced hunting weapons in the human ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...

This makes the specimens the oldest known use of poisonous arrows on earth The study’s authors said the findings provide new insight into the cognitive abilities of early humans Scientist have found ...

Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, there are recipes for poisoning projective weapons, and deploying them in battle, in ...

Poison found on Stone Age arrowheads shows evidence of early humans’ sophistication and planning, say archaeologists Ben Farmer is Africa Correspondent for The Telegraph and its Global Health Security ...

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A new analysis of ancient arrowheads from South Africa pushes back prehistoric humans’ earliest use of poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years. “This is the earliest direct evidence of the use of ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known Researchers have found traces of ...

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 ...