Archaeologists working in South Africa have discovered traces of plant toxins on the tips of 60,000-year-old arrows, marking the earliest known evidence of humans integrating poison into their hunting ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

One of four South Carolina men who used poison arrows to hunt deer, elk and bears told an investigator he's been using the illegal equipment in Mesa County for at least 20 years, taking an unknown ...

Prior to the discovery of poison residue on the Umhlatuzana arrow tips, the earliest direct evidence of poison on hunting tools came from bone-tipped arrows in an Egyptian tomb 4,431 to 4,000 years ...