They added that "the identification of ricinoleic acid points to the possibility ... come in a recipe mixture like the arrow. "Although by no means the oldest use of poison, this is the earliest ...

Hundreds of stone artifacts and 54,000-year-old human teeth ... while the smaller points (called “micropoints” in the research) fell in line with bow-and-arrow technologies, according to ...

Our research has revealed that the femur’s contents are arguably the oldest multi-component arrow poison in the world. It’s a complex recipe combining at least two toxic plant ingredients.

University re-examines 7,000-year-old femur, discovers oldest multi-plant arrow poison. (photo credit: Dr Aliénor Duhamel, CC BY-NC-ND) Researchers unveiled what may be the world's oldest ...