Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting ...

An intact 5,000-year-old tomb has been discovered in Teba, Spain, containing ivory, amber, shells, and trade networks.

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 ...

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

Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock ...

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

Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest.

By digging carefully, archaeologists can connect information from aDNA to information about the social lives of these people.