Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...
The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...
Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...
A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by ...
A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.