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Hunting with poison arrows may have begun 60,000 years ago in Africa
The San people of southern Africa hunt with poison arrows, and this practice may have truly ancient origins imageBROKER.com / Alamy 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 for the use…
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60,000-year-old poison arrowheads show early humans’ skillful hunting
A new analysis of ancient arrowheads from South Africa pushes back prehistoric humans’ earliest use of poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years. The five 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads still have traces of a poison made from a bulbous flowering plant named gifbol (Boophone disticha), also called “poisonous onion,” that was used until recent centuries by…