Researchers identified chemical traces of poison on 60,000-year-old arrowheads, meaning the artifacts bear the oldest known evidence of arrow poison.

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Scientists have just identified the oldest traces of arrow poison on 60,000-year-old quartz arrows unearthed in South Africa.

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