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 ...

Oldest known poison arrows were used to hunt animals 60,000 years ago

Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to ...

These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found

Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in ...
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South African hunters used complex poison arrows 60,000 years ago

Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...

Scientists find 60,000-year-old 'poisoned' arrows showing advanced prehistoric hunting skills

According to the researchers, the poison used on the arrows came from the bulb of the local plant Boophone disticha.
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Stone Age humans hunted with poisoned arrows

Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting ...

How 60,000-year-old arrows change what we know about human’s history of hunting

Recently, three bone arrowheads stored in a poison-filled bone container were reported from Kruger Cave in South Africa ...
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Crafty hunter creates bows, arrows, arrowheads himself

Modern technology helped Jim Meinecke step back in time to create hunting bows and arrows as they were built centuries ago. The bow hunter from Fayetteville learned the art of making his own wooden ...