According to the researchers, the poison used on the arrows came from the bulb of the local plant Boophone disticha.

Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in ...

The arrow came to light in a layer of sediments dating to 60,000 years ago, suggesting the artifact is just as old. Namely, ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.

In 2023, the Government of Canada estimated there were around 100 million lamps containing mercury sold in Canada over the ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

Data centers are straining electricity supplies even as Oregon tries to switch to renewable power. That’s put the grid’s ...

A December 10–12 working group met to bring together researchers from two fields — neuromorphic computing and stochastic ...