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 ...
New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...
Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in ...
The quartz arrowheads were collected from sediment at Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa dated to the Pleistocene age. By analyzing the chemical structure of residue on the ...
Army veteran Zane Scrivner tagged a 400-class nontypical elk while bowhunting Fort Sill. It's been declared a new Oklahoma ...
Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock ...
A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years.