60,000-year-old poison arrows from South Africa are the oldest poison weapons ever discovered

Front and back side of five poison arrow heads with inlay of front of 10 arrow heads.

A handful of 60,000-year-old arrow tips unearthed in a South African rock shelter are the oldest evidence of poison weapons in the world, a new study finds.

The discovery pushes back the confirmed use of poison weapons by hunter-gatherers by over 50,000 years.