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

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

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

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

For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...

The study authors conclude that these Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers were making their poison from the gifbol root bulb ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...

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

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

Twenty people arrived this month at the Poison Control Center at Rambam Hospital after people ate mushrooms that are not ...