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

The finding in South Africa identifies toxic alkaloids in these projectiles, used for hunting during the Paleolithic era ...

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

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

Researchers have found traces of what appears to be plant-derived poison on tiny stone arrowheads from South Africa dated to ...

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

A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years.

A collection of arrow points excavated in South Africa has provided the oldest direct evidence of hunters deploying ...

When Sudan’s Prime Minister, Dr. Kamil El-Tayeb Idris, stood before the United Nations Security Council in New York, his ...

Last summer, after more than two years of terrible fighting, it looked like the United States might finally have landed on a viable approach for ending the civil war in Sudan. Since the conflict began ...

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