The Maravi Post

Babatunde eyes South Africa comeback as keeps Bullets close to his heart

BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Flames striker Babatunde Adepoju has expressed renewed determination to make his return to South Africa a success, while openly stating that FCB Nyasa Big Bullets remain his ...
Morning Overview on MSN

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 ...

21 Hunters on the Lucky Charms We Never, Ever Hunt Without

Superstitious? Nah. But these are the rituals we perform and the charms we bring along on all our hunts—just in case.
Ancient Origins

60,000-Year-Old Poison Arrows Prove Surprising Stone Age Cognitive Genius

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...

World's oldest poison arrow: Archaeologists identify toxic substance on Stone Age hunters' 60,000–year–old weapon – and it still has active compounds

Researchers have identified traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads - making it the oldest known arrow poison in the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Just Discovered the Oldest Known Evidence of Poison Arrows, Which Hunters Used to Slow Down Their Prey 60,000 Years Ago

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...
Greek Reporter

World’s Oldest Arrow Poison Found in Africa, Dating Back 60,000 Years

Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest arrow poison on 60,000-year-old tools in South Africa, revealing early human ...
Xinhuanet

Oldest known poison weapons found in South Africa: study

Previously, the oldest evidence of poison weapon use was found on 7,000-year-old "bone arrow points" from Kruger Cave in South Africa. Other older findings, such as the indirect evidence of a ...
ZME Science

Hunters in South Africa Were Using Complex Poison Arrows 60,000 Years Ago

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

Arrow tips found in South Africa are the oldest evidence of poison use in hunting

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

Archaeologists find earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by humans

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...
The South African

World’s earliest evidence of poison-tipped arrows found in South Africa

A new find in South Africa has revealed that humans have been using poison arrows for hunting far longer than originally ...