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World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrowheads Date Back 60,000 Years, Show Hunters’ Knowledge of Toxins

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World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrowheads Date Back 60,000 Years, Show Hunters’ Knowledge of Toxins

Both sides of the discovered arrowhead – credit, Marlize Lombard / SWNS Scientists identified traces of a poison from the South African plant gifbol on Stone Age arrowheads dating back 60,000 years, making it the oldest known arrow poison discovered anywhere in the world. The researchers say the find shows that people in southern Africa … Read more

Early Human Ancestor Found in Morocco Dates Back 700,000 Years May Be Major Missing Link

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Early Human Ancestor Found in Morocco Dates Back 700,000 Years May Be Major Missing Link

credit – JP Raynal released from the Programme Préhistoire de Casablanca Remains of an early human ancestor from a critically important period in our evolutionary history have been found in Morocco. Dated back 700,000 years using precise geo-magnetic methods, the assemblage of jawbones and teeth may come from the epoch during which African and Eurasian … Read more