article_snippet: Dr Valentina Borgia, a specialist in paleolithic hunting weapons at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, believes hunters may have been using toxic chemicals on hunters weapons up to 30,000 years ago.
article_snippet: Dr Valentina Borgia, a specialist in paleolithic hunting weapons at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge said that Paleolithic hunters may have used poisonous pastes made from plants to help make Paleolithic hunters weapons kill prey more swiftly.
article_snippet: Dr Valentina Borgia, a specialist in paleolithic hunting weapons at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge said: 'It made good sense for people to use poisons. '
article_snippet: Poisonous plants were plentiful and the prehistoric population knew the environment where Poisonous plants lived, Poisonous plants knew the edible plants and Poisonous plants potential as medicines and poisons. '
article_snippet: In addition, the making of poisons is often part of the tradition and the rituality of hunting.'
article_snippet: some indigenous hunter-gatherers in South America can then compare the results from tests against a database of known poisonous plants.
article_snippet: Many hunter gatherer societies are known to use poisons when Many hunter gatherer societies are hunting.
article_snippet: This bone harpoon in a museum in Cambridge carries a warning label that reads 'Care, Has been poisoned' The animal did not die but became ill, suggesting the presence of a poison.
article_snippet: we know that the Babylonians, Greeks and Romans used plant-based poisons both for hunting animals and in war. '
article_snippet: In fact, the word ‘toxic’ come from toxon, the Greek for bow.
article_snippet: Few hunter-gatherer societies remain today but all the groups that have survived employ poisons.'
highlights_snippet: Scientists at Cambridge University believe paleolithic hunters  used plant toxins up to 30,000 years ago .
  