, I’ll find myself walking through a freshly plowed field. Inevitably, I’ll spend as much time peering downward as I do listening skyward. I can’t help myself. I might be hunting gobblers, but I’m ...

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

A new analysis of ancient arrowheads from South Africa pushes back prehistoric humans’ earliest use of poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years. “This is the earliest direct evidence of the use of ...

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have discovered chemical traces of plant-based poison on Stone Age arrowheads ...