Today, rock wallabies rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

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 ...

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 weapons by human hunters, archaeologists say in a new study. For long, ...

Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

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

A 9,500-year-old funeral pyre uncovered in a rock shelter in northern Malawi is forcing archaeologists to rethink when and ...