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 ...

Measuring approximately one and a half inches in length, the arrowhead is believed to be composed of meteoritic iron that originated in Estonia. (Creative Commons image via Journal of Archaeological ...

This makes the specimens the oldest known use of poisonous arrows on earth The study’s authors said the findings provide new insight into the cognitive abilities of early humans Scientist have found ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found traces of poison on 60,000-year-old arrowheads in South Africa. Their discovery, reported by Stockholm University in the journal Science Advances, ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...

Researchers analyzed 60,000-year-old arrowheads found in South Africa and discovered they had been tinged with poison. This is the earliest known case of poison-enhanced hunting weapons in the human ...