Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...

The earliest known proof that humans could create fire rather than simply use it now sits in a patch of scorched sediment and broken stone tools from eastern England, shifting a cornerstone of early ...

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

Researchers have identified traces of plant poison from the South African plant gifbol on Stone Age arrowheads – the oldest ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...