Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South ...
60,000-year-old traces of arrow poison on quartz arrowheads have been found at the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This discovery represents the oldest direct evidence of ...
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 ...
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KZN team finds 'oldest evidence' of arrow poison use by humans on 60,000-year-old arrowheads
This evidence for the most complex technology known in hunter-gatherer behaviour is a ‘clear sign of advanced thinking in ...
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