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60,000 years ago humans were already using poisoned arrows

Sixty thousand years ago, humans in southern Africa were already mastering nature’s chemistry. Scientists have discovered ...
Rolling Stone

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Arrow tips found in South Africa are the oldest evidence of poison use in hunting

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boophone disticha. Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY The oldest evidence for the use of ...
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Ancient Hunters Used Plant Poison On These Stone Arrows 60,000 Years Ago

Hunter-gatherers in South Africa were coating their stone-tipped arrows with deadly plant toxins at least 60,000 years ago, according to chemical analysis of ancient weapons unearthed from a rock ...
Ars Technica

These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found

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 ...
Artnet

Scientists Find World’s Oldest Poison on 60,000-Year-Old Arrowheads

A new study has identified toxins on arrowheads found in South Africa, revealing the chemical savvy of early humans. Quartz arrowheads found in the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, South Africa. Photo: ...
C&EN

Stone Age humans hunted with poisoned arrows

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Just Discovered the Oldest Known Evidence of Poison Arrows, Which Hunters Used to Slow Down Their Prey 60,000 Years Ago

Five quartz arrowheads unearthed in South Africa contained traces of toxins. Marlize Lombard Archaeologists working in South Africa have discovered traces of plant toxins on the tips of ...
The Conversation

Arrow tips found in South Africa are the oldest evidence of poison use in hunting

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 ...
Channel 3000

Oldest known poison arrows were used to hunt animals 60,000 years ago

Hunter-gatherers likely dipped the quartz arrowheads, excavated from the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in 1985, in poison before using them to kill animals for food. The ...
ZME Science

Hunters in South Africa Were Using Complex Poison Arrows 60,000 Years Ago

Both sides of one of the arrowheads analysed. The left-hand image shows the organic remains in which the arrowhead residues were identified. Photo: Marlize Lombard. Picture a hunt in Pleistocene South ...