Deliberately hollowed out and plugged with birch tar, the bone – originally from a sheep or goat – was found to contain a large number of seeds of a plant called black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger).

which is found in the castor bean plant. The Border Cave example is, however, probably a single-component poison and not a complex recipe. What's assumed to be arrow poison has been found on bone ...

Researchers find the oldest multi-component hunting poison on arrowheads inside a 7,000-year-old antelope bone.

The bone cylinder, approximately 7 cm (3 in) in length, was intentionally worked at both ends and sealed with a plug of birch ...

In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified ...

Apples are rich in cellulose—a complex carbohydrate that gives plant tissue its structural form. Pelling’s team cut up an apple and stripped away its tissue using detergents, leaving a 3D cellulose ...