Scientists Identify 60,000-Year-Old Discovery That Rewrites Early Human History ...

60,000-year-old traces of arrow poison on quartz arrowheads have been found at the Umhlatuzana ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

A new analysis of ancient arrowheads from South Africa pushes back prehistoric humans’ earliest use of poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years. “This is the earliest direct evidence of the use of ...

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of macronutrients—protein, carbohydrates, and fat. While hunting big-game animals—like deer, ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

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 ...