Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient humans used poisoned arrowheads to hunt prey 60,000 years ago, archeologists discovered. Traces of plant toxins were found ...

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 ...

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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