The team analyzed 10 arrowheads, dated to 60,000 years ago, that were found in excavated soil layers from the Umhlatuzana ...

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

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found traces of poison on 60,000-year-old arrowheads in South Africa. Their ...

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 ...

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

Chemical traces on 60,000-year-old stone arrowheads from South Africa suggest ancient hunters used plant poison.

According to the researchers, the poison used on the arrows came from the bulb of the local plant Boophone disticha.

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

Scientists have just identified the oldest traces of arrow poison on 60,000-year-old quartz arrows unearthed in South Africa.

The oldest direct evidence of humans using poisoned arrows was in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago. Bone arrow ...

Scientists have discovered what they say are the oldest traces of arrow poison that had survived on 60,000-year-old ...