Hunter-gatherers in South Africa were coating their stone-tipped arrows with deadly plant toxins at least 60,000 years ago, according to chemical analysis of ancient weapons unearthed from a rock ...

Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting as far back as 60,000 years ago (Sci. Adv. 2026, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz3281 ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

Imagine a world free of smartphones, electricity, and even the concept of a wheel. That was the reality for our distant ancestors during the Stone Age. While their lives might seem unrefined when ...

CNN — (CNN) — What did people in the Stone Age eat before the advent of farming around 10,000 years ago? A long-held stereotype — one that’s influenced modern fad diets — is that ancient humans hunted ...

Far below the waves of the Baltic Sea, sonar has revealed a sprawling stone formation that turns out to be one of the oldest ...