A 7,000-year-old femur bone belonging to an antelope, discovered in a South African cave, has revealed the earliest confirmed use of a multi-component arrow poison. Three modified bone arrowheads were ...

The site also revealed chipped stone tools, providing insights into the hunting practices of ancient humans. This find highlights the strategic hunting methods used to survive during the ...

Africa’s Stone Age was also a Bone Age. Ancient Africans took bone tools to a new level around 90,000 years ago by making pointed knives out of animals’ ribs, scientists say. Before then ...

the spread of hunting and farming, the enslavement of African people, and colonization wrought dramatic demographic changes. “It completely obscured the ancient genetic variation,” says Sawchuk. In ...