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Archaeologists find world’s oldest multi-component hunting poison in 7,000-year-old bone

Archaeologists in South Africa made a remarkable discovery on arrow blades lodged inside the femur of an antelope: the oldest mixed poison on record. The femur bone belonged to an antelope that ...
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7,000-year-old bone holds 3 arrowheads with mixed poisons — the oldest of their kind on record

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Discovery in South Africa holds oldest evidence of mixing ingredients to make arrow poison

In 1983, archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three ...
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Arrow tips found in South Africa are the oldest evidence of poison use in hunting

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boophone disticha. Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY The oldest evidence for the use of ...