Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by human hunters, archaeologists say in a new study. For long, ...

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

Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as much as sharp stone. New research on tiny stone points from South Africa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers analyzed 60,000-year-old arrowheads found in South Africa and discovered they had been tinged with poison. This is the ...

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 ...

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired prey during long hunts. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

When you think of critical developments in human technology, chances are that things like farming or the wheel come to mind. New research, however, highlights a more niche stepping stone—poison. In a ...

Archaeologists find earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by humans - Prehistoric humans had advanced planning abilities and understood how poisons worked over time ...

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 ...