The femur used as a quiver, with the arrowheads embedded in poison inside. Source: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02663-4.

7,000-Year-Old Bone Arrowheads Held a Complex Poison, Study Finds

A new study into a 7,000 year old bovid femur found in Kruger Cave, South Africa, has shed lights on the secrets of Neolithic hunting in the region. The femur had three arrowheads embedded in it, suggesting that it was used as a quiver. The arrowheads were found to have been coated with three separate

A 10th century burial in Hungary’s Carpathian Basin looks set to rewrite history. The grave holds a woman, but the bow she is holding tells us she was a warrior, the first found in the country.

“But No Living Man Am I”: Unique 10th Century Burial Contains a Warrior Woman

A research team led by Dr. Balázs Tihanyi has found something never before seen in Hungary’s Carpathian Basin. The grave, dating to the 10th century, is of a woman and her weapons. Such burials of warrior women are extremely rare across the archaeological records, and this is a first for Hungary. The discovery, published in