Traces of toxic plant compounds have been found on a handful of 60,000-year-old African arrowheads, providing the oldest chemical evidence that Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers used poison to bring down ...

Scientists find lethal plant poison on South African stone arrow tips from 60,000 years ago, proving early humans were far ...

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

When a venomous snake sinks its fangs, a complex mixture of toxic proteins, enzymes and other molecular substances is injected straight into your bloodstream. This is to disable you and break down ...

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

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

P rehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Africa applied deadly poisons to their stone arrows 60,000 years ago. Amazingly, the ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival. By Becky Ferreira Today it seems obvious: Dip a sharp object in a poisonous ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South ...

Researchers have identified traces of plant poison from the South African plant gifbol on Stone Age arrowheads – the oldest known arrow poison in the world to date. The discovery, published in the ...