It has been suspected that older groups would've used poison for hunting or combat, but now it has been proven! This pushes the use of poison tipped arrows back to over 60K years ago
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz3281
![[Image: f_avif]](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/pilspetsar-umhlatuzana.jpg?c=original&q=w_1202,c_fill/f_avif)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/science/o...-arrow-use
Before this, a poison applicator was found from roughly 24,000 years ago in South Africa:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1204213109
Pretty cool if you ask me. The more we learn, the more it becomes apparent that humans and other hominins groups were clever when it came to tools & hunting.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz3281
![[Image: f_avif]](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/pilspetsar-umhlatuzana.jpg?c=original&q=w_1202,c_fill/f_avif)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/science/o...-arrow-use
Before this, a poison applicator was found from roughly 24,000 years ago in South Africa:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1204213109
Pretty cool if you ask me. The more we learn, the more it becomes apparent that humans and other hominins groups were clever when it came to tools & hunting.


