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

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

Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock ...

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

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

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

The quartz arrowheads were collected from sediment at Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa dated to the ...

Researchers have identified traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads - making it the oldest known arrow poison in the ...

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

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

Earliest evidence of poisoned arrows offers new insights into the advanced technology and strategic thinking of prehistoric ...

A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years.