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7,000-year-old bone holds 3 arrowheads with mixed poisons — the oldest of their kind on record
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X-rays revealed that three modified bone arrowheads had been placed into the marrow cavity of the femur.
The application of poison to hunting weapons is thought to have originated about 60,000 to 70,000 years ago .
The ability to mix together complex recipes speaks directly to their makers' cognitive capacities and traditional pharmacological knowledge.
The earliest molecular evidence for poison in southern Africa comes from a 24,000-year-old wooden spatula at Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains on the border between Swaziland and South Africa .
Ricinoleic acid is one of the by-products (a smaller constituent molecule of a larger organic compound) of the potent toxin ricin.
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