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World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrowheads Date Back 60,000 Years, Show Hunters’ Knowledge of Toxins
Scientists identified traces of a poison from the South African plant gifbol on Stone Age arrowheads dating back 60,000 years, making it the oldest known arrow poison discovered anywhere in the world. The researchers say the find shows that people in southern Africa had already developed advanced knowledge of toxic substances and how they could […] The post World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrowheads Date Back 60,000 Years, Show Hunters’ Knowledge of Tox…
60,000 years. That's how old the traces of poison on the arrowheads in southern Africa that Swedish researchers have found. This means the oldest known use of poisoned arrows to date.
The use of human-poisoned arrows began much earlier than was believed. A scientific study identified traces of 60,000-year-old vegetal venom in arrowheads found in South Africa. The finding displaced previous evidence about this hunting technique in more than 50,000 years. The research was based on recovered quartz arrowheads in the KwaZulu-Natal region, south-eastern Africa. Microchemical and biomolecular analysis confirmed the presence of toxi…
A new analysis of ancient arrow tips in South Africa pushes back by more than 50,000 years the use of poisoned weapons by prehistoric humans. The five 60,000-year-old quartz arrow tips still carry traces of a poison made from a bulbous flowering plant called gifbol (disticha boophone), also known as [...]
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