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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quartz arrowheads dated to 60,000 years ago from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in South Africa have traces of toxic plant alkaloids.

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 ...

A new study has identified toxins on arrowheads found in South Africa, revealing the chemical savvy of early humans. Quartz arrowheads found in the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, South Africa. Photo: ...

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Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

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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 ...

Traces of toxic plant compounds have been found on a handful of 60,000-year-old African arrowheads, providing the oldest chemical evidence that Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers used poison to bring down ...