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

This discovery represents the oldest direct evidence of arrow poison used by ancient humans for hunting. Archaeologists from ...

Learn how microscopic chemical traces preserved on stone tools are revealing new details about early human hunting practices.

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Animals that evolved in warm, tropical climes rarely decide to move to cold, snowy ones. Take any creature from the African grassland and drop it in Austria during an Ice Age, and the poor creature ...

Study: Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record As early humans spread from lush ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...