Long before agriculture or cities, hunters in southern Africa were already engineering weapons that relied on chemistry as ...

Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting ...

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

The Hjortspring boat was essentially a very large canoe used in an ancient raid. In the 4th century BC, several boats ...