Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South ...
Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting as far back as 60,000 years ago (Sci. Adv. 2026, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz3281 ...
Professor with Research Focus in Stone Age Archaeology, Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg The oldest evidence for the use of arrow poison globally was long thought to come from ...
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