Arrow tips found in South Africa are the oldest evidence of poison use in hunting

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...
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60,000-year-old poison arrows from South Africa are the oldest poison weapons ever discovered

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...
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World’s Oldest Poison Arrows Were Used By Hunters 60,000 Years Ago

P rehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Africa applied deadly poisons to their stone arrows 60,000 years ago. Amazingly, the ...
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Hunters in South Africa Were Using Complex Poison Arrows 60,000 Years Ago

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.