A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years.

It’s the earliest-known case of enhancing hunting weapons with poison in the human historical record.

The world’s oldest poisoned arrows – dating back 60,000 years – have been identified. The discovery reveals early advanced ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

The research team identified chemical residues of poison from gifbol, a poisonous plant still used by traditional hunters in ...

Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...

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

, I’ll find myself walking through a freshly plowed field. Inevitably, I’ll spend as much time peering downward as I do listening skyward. I can’t help myself. I might be hunting gobblers, but I’m ...

Hunters in southern Africa 60,000 years ago, may have been turning simple stone-tipped arrows into chemically enhanced weapons. A new finding suggests poison use was already part of hunting technology ...

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...