Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...
60,000-year-old traces of arrow poison on quartz arrowheads have been found at the Umhlatuzana ...
Scientists Identify 60,000-Year-Old Discovery That Rewrites Early Human History ...
A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years.
The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...
New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...
For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...
Researchers have identified traces of plant poison from the South African plant gifbol on Stone Age arrowheads – the oldest known arrow poison in the world to date. The discovery, published in the ...
Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South ...