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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60,000-year-old poison arrows from South Africa are the oldest poison weapons ever discovered
A handful of 60,000-year-old arrow tips unearthed in a South African rock shelter are the oldest evidence of poison weapons in the world, a new study finds. The discovery pushes back the confirmed use ...
Traces of plant toxins have been found on 60,000-year-old arrow tips in South Africa, showing that ancient hunters made use of poisons much earlier than previously known. Until recently, the evidence ...
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