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7,000-Year-Old Poison Arrowheads Found Embedded In An Antelope Bone Uncovered Inside A South African Cave
In 1983, archaeologists exploring South Africa's Kruger Cave found a 7,000-year-old antelope femur which then sat in storage at the University of Witwatersrand for nearly 40 years. It wasn't until ...
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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.
Archaeologists discover world's oldest poison in Africa dating back 7,000 years
Researchers have claimed they have found one of the world's oldest mixed poisons in the world, dating back an incredible ...
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Archaeologists find world’s oldest multi-component hunting poison in 7,000-year-old bone
Researchers find the oldest multi-component hunting poison on arrowheads inside a 7,000-year-old antelope bone.
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Discovery in South Africa holds oldest evidence of mixing ingredients to make arrow poison
Justin Bradfield receives funding from the National Research Foundation. In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified ...
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B2Gold plans to build $129m underground mine in Namibia
CANADIAN gold miner B2Gold said a preliminary economic assessment of the Antelope deposit near Otjikoto mine in Namibia ...