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From the -2smarter than we thought-+ department:
Title: Oldest known poison arrows show Stone Age humansrCO technological talents
Author:
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00051-8

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00051-8[1] Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

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[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00051-8 (link)
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On 11 Jan 2026 05:38:38 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
wrote:

From the smarter than we thought department:
Title: Oldest known poison arrows show Stone Age humans' technological talents

I suspect more like monkey see, monkey do....humans then eating
this/that would have seen deaths....and they knew their arrows by
themselves were not good enough.

Obtaining food was their main objective, and they had plenty of time
to think about how to do it.
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