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Team finds 'oldest evidence' of

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January 23, 2026

The evidence for the most complex technology known in hunter-gatherer behaviour was found in KwaZulu-Natal and is a 'clear sign of advanced thinking in early humans', the scientists believe.

- By Shaun Smillie

Marlize Lombard (seated) from the University of Johannesburg and Anders H gberg (right) from Linnaeus University at the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, where the poisoned arrow tips were excavated.

(Gerrit Dusseldorp Boophone disticha is a bulbous tropical and subtropical flowering plant. The bulb is used to make an arrow poison. Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Scientists have discovered what they say are the oldest traces of arrow poison that had survived on 60,000-year-old arrowheads.

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