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 ...

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by human hunters, archaeologists say in a new study. For long, ...

, I’ll find myself walking through a freshly plowed field. Inevitably, I’ll spend as much time peering downward as I do listening skyward. I can’t help myself. I might be hunting gobblers, but I’m ...

Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, there are recipes for poisoning projective weapons, and deploying them in battle, in ...

The world’s oldest poisoned arrows - dating back 60,000 years - have been identified. The discovery reveals early advanced hunting techniques, say scientists. They identified traces of poison from the ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...

Both sides of one of the arrowheads analyzed. The left-hand image shows the organic remains in which the arrowhead residues were identified. (Marlize Lombard via SWNS) By Stephen Beech The world’s ...