The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...
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South African hunters used complex poison arrows 60,000 years ago
Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...
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Ancient hunters used plant poison on these stone arrows 60,000 years ago
Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...
The team analyzed 10 arrowheads, dated to 60,000 years ago, that were found in excavated soil layers from the Umhlatuzana ...
Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...
The plant, known as kanna or kougoed by the San and Khoikhoi people, was mainly chewed or smoked to stay alert and suppress appetite during long hunts. The San were traditionally hunter-gatherers, ...
New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.
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