A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...
Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...
Scientists have just identified the oldest traces of arrow poison on 60,000-year-old quartz arrows unearthed in South Africa.
Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting ...