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New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.

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Handling the things of God with wisdom requires Christian teachers to exercise keen discernment regarding what’s “more ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the earliest direct chemical proof ancient humans employed poison on ...