It’s the earliest-known case of enhancing hunting weapons with poison in the human historical record.

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

Measuring approximately one and a half inches in length, the arrowhead is believed to be composed of meteoritic iron that originated in Estonia. (Creative Commons image via Journal of Archaeological ...

The find is the earliest direct evidence of poisoned hunting weapons to date.

Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa, according to a new paper published in the journal Science ...