Poisons, plants and Palaeolithic hunters
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 06:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Dozens of common plants are toxic. Archaeologists have long suspected that our Palaeolithic ancestors used plant poisons to make their hunting weapons more lethal. Now Dr Valentina Borgia has teamed up with a forensic chemist to develop a technique for detecting residues of deadly substances on archaeological objects.