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Archaeologists just discovered the oldest known evidence of poison arrows, which hunters used to slow down their prey 60,000 years ago
Archaeologists working in South Africa have discovered traces of plant toxins on the tips of 60,000-year-old arrows, marking ...
Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to ...
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South African hunters used complex poison arrows 60,000 years ago
Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...
The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...
A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years.
Scientists have just identified the oldest traces of arrow poison on 60,000-year-old quartz arrows unearthed in South Africa.
Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.
The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...
New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.
The poison likely came from the bulbs of Boophone disticha, a local flowering plant. Hunters would have used it to weaken ...
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