The world’s oldest poisoned arrows – dating back 60,000 years – have been identified. The discovery reveals early advanced ...

It’s the earliest-known case of enhancing hunting weapons with poison in the human historical record.

The research team identified chemical residues of poison from gifbol, a poisonous plant still used by traditional hunters in ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

A new analysis of ancient arrowheads from South Africa pushes back prehistoric humans’ earliest use of poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years. “This is the earliest direct evidence of the use of ...