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7,000-year-old bone holds 3 arrowheads with mixed poisons — the oldest of their kind on record
This is the oldest confirmed use of a mixture comprising two or more plant toxins specifically applied to arrowheads.
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Discovery in South Africa holds oldest evidence of mixing ingredients to make arrow poison
The three bone arrowhead fragments and poison substance are visible. Credit: Dr Aliénor Duhamel, CC BY-NC-ND In 1983, archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur ...