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

P rehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Africa applied deadly poisons to their stone arrows 60,000 years ago. Amazingly, the ...

A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

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