New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...

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

For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...

Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...

Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in ...

Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to ...

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

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

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Africa applied deadly poisons to their stone arrows 60,000 years ago. Amazingly, the ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...