HumansHunting with poison arrows may have begun 60,000 years ago in Africa A collection of arrow points excavated in South Africa has provided the oldest direct evidence of hunters deploying plant-based poisons on their weapons, a practice that has continued into modern times in some traditional cultures News
HumansEasily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of the first states The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large societies, rather than agriculture generally News