New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

When we imagine the earliest humans brave enough to hunt a forty-ton whale, the image that usually comes to mind is frosty ...

A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years.

Chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa reveals that humans were using plant-based arrow poisons around 60,000 years ago.

Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

This discovery sheds new light on understanding the lives and hunting practices of ancient people who lived along the coasts ...

Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

Learn how ancient shell mounds reveal that coastal communities in Brazil were hunting large whales thousands of years earlier ...

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