{"id":228665,"date":"2026-01-09T21:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/direct-evidence-for-poison-use-on-microlithic-arrowheads-in-southern-africa-at-60000-years-ago"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:14:19","slug":"direct-evidence-for-poison-use-on-microlithic-arrowheads-in-southern-africa-at-60000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/direct-evidence-for-poison-use-on-microlithic-arrowheads-in-southern-africa-at-60000-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/direct-evidence-for-poison-use-on-microlithic-arrowheads-in-southern-africa-at-60000-years-ago2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hunter-gatherers in southern Africa laced their stone arrow tips with poison roughly 60,000 years ago, a new <i>Science <\/i>Advances study finds.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery pushes back the timeline for poison weapon use from the mid-Holocene to the Late Pleistocene.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter-gatherers in southern Africa laced their stone arrow tips with poison roughly 60,000 years ago, a new Science Advances study finds. The discovery pushes back the timeline for poison weapon use from the mid-Holocene to the Late Pleistocene. Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}