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125,000-year-old poisoned stone points discovered on shore of ancient lake in Saudi Arabia
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- A new study reports that people living in Arabia about 125,000 years ago used composite hunting weapons and plant-fiber processing.
- The study suggests they may also have used poison-assisted hunting, with the stone tools likely used to hunt large animals.
- Live Science reports chemical residue from a poisonous tree on stone points at a 125,000-year-old lakeshore site in Saudi Arabia, possibly the world's oldest poisoned weapons.
Why it matters
If confirmed, the findings indicate that people in Arabia during this period had complex, multi-step hunting and processing technologies, which bears on how early human populations used resources around freshwater lakes.
Who’s affected
- archaeologists and paleoanthropologists
- readers interested in human prehistory
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- #arabia
- #hunting-technology
- #paleolithic
Archaeologists have found what may be the world's oldest poisoned weapons at a 125,000-year-old site on an ancient lakeshore in Saudi Arabia. The stone tools, which were likely used to hunt large animals, had traces of residue from a poisonous tree historically used for its…
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