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Chemical traces hint at poisoned hunting weapons in Arabia 125,000 years ago

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Chemical traces hint at poisoned hunting weapons in Arabia 125,000 years ago

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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

A new study has found people living in Arabia 125,000 years ago used complex technologies, including composite hunting weapons, plant-fiber processing and possibly poison-assisted hunting, while making use of a freshwater lake rich in resources.

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  1. Study on poisoned hunting weapons and complex technologies in Arabia 125,000 years ago reported

  2. Latest from Live Science in Archaeology

    125,000-year-old poisoned stone points discovered on shore of ancient lake in Saudi Arabia

  3. Science News - Mathematics, Economics, Archaeology, Fossils

    Chemical traces hint at poisoned hunting weapons in Arabia 125,000 years ago

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