Scientists in South Africa have discovered 60,000-year-old poisoned arrowheads at the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter. The quartz arrowheads were treated with poison from the Boophone disticha plant, which slowed prey rather than killing instantly, indicating advanced prehistoric hunting strategies. This finding pushes back the timeline for poisoned projectile use by tens of thousands of years, predating previous evidence by millennia and suggesting complex cognitive abilities in early humans.