This is the oldest confirmed use of a mixture comprising two or more plant toxins specifically applied to arrowheads.

Archaeologists believe they've found evidence of the world's oldest arrow poison inside a 7,000-year-old antelope bone. The bone has been in the possession of experts since its discovery in 1983, but ...

That's when new archaeological investigations began at the site where the femur had been discovered: Kruger Cave, in the western Magaliesberg mountains, about 1.5 hours' drive from Johannesburg.

In 1983, archaeologists were excavating a cave in South Africa when they came across a strange-looking femur bone. It dated […] The post The World’s Oldest Arrow Poison Was Discovered In A ...