Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Both sides of one of the arrowheads analysed. The left-hand image shows the organic remains in which the arrowhead residues were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers analyzed 60,000-year-old arrowheads found in South Africa and discovered they had been tinged with poison. This is the ...

Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in South Africa about 60,000 years ago. The find marks the oldest known poison arrows and ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Africa's largely primitive Hadzabe people, down to their last 1,500 members after surviving thousands of years of disease, famine and encroaching civilization, fear their final blow will be the recent ...

Prior to the discovery of poison residue on the Umhlatuzana arrow tips, the earliest direct evidence of poison on hunting tools came from bone-tipped arrows in an Egyptian tomb 4,431 to 4,000 years ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Thanks to the discovery of toxins on five arrowheads found in the Umhlatuzana rock shelter, it’s evident ...