Jack Russell terriers are the blood-tracking breed preferred by many South African big-game hunters for their grit and their ...

Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting ...

Scientists have just identified the oldest traces of arrow poison on 60,000-year-old quartz arrows unearthed in South Africa.

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...

Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in ...

Analysis of 60,000-year-old artifacts has uncovered the oldest known poison arrowheads, hinting at advanced ancient knowledge ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

P rehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Africa applied deadly poisons to their stone arrows 60,000 years ago. Amazingly, the ...

Traditional initiation is a rite of passage into manhood for young males that is practiced by various ethnic groups in Africa ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...