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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KZN team finds ‘oldest evidence’ of arrow poison use by humans on 60,000-year-old arrowheads

Scientists have discovered what they say are the oldest traces of arrow poison that had survived on 60,000-year-old ...
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Ancient hunters used plant poison on these stone arrows 60,000 years ago

Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60,000-Year-Old Arrows

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.
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Archaeologists Just Discovered the Oldest Known Evidence of Poison Arrows, Which Hunters Used to Slow Down Their Prey 60,000 Years Ago

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...
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Prehistoric humans hunted with poisoned arrows thousands of years earlier than thought

The oldest direct evidence of humans using poisoned arrows was in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago. Bone arrow ...
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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 ...

Poison-Laced Arrows Date Back Tens of Thousands of Years Earlier Than Expected

The arrow came to light in a layer of sediments dating to 60,000 years ago, suggesting the artifact is just as old. Namely, ...