The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...
Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...
Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...
The team analyzed 10 arrowheads, dated to 60,000 years ago, that were found in excavated soil layers from the Umhlatuzana ...
New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.
The plant, known as kanna or kougoed by the San and Khoikhoi people, was mainly chewed or smoked to stay alert and suppress appetite during long hunts. The San were traditionally hunter-gatherers, ...
Connecticut does not have clean hands when it comes to pushing Africa’s Big 5—elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos and giraffes—closer to extinction. The state is supplying customers to the grave, ...
The first time I heard about calamari was probably in 7th grade. I remember seeing the word and photo in a Spanish class textbook and upon learning it was squid, decided it wasn’t for me. I was a ...