{"id":11424,"date":"2026-01-08T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11424\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:25:06","slug":"on-chassait-deja-avec-des-fleches-empoisonnees-il-y-a-60-000-ans-en-afrique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11424\/","title":{"rendered":"On chassait d\u00e9j\u00e0 avec des fl\u00e8ches empoisonn\u00e9es il y a 60 000 ans en Afrique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cEn Afrique du Sud, des traces de toxines d\u2019origine v\u00e9g\u00e9tale ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couvertes sur des pointes de fl\u00e8ches vieilles de 60\u00a0000\u00a0ans, preuve que le recours au poison comme arme de chasse est bien plus ancien que ce que l\u2019on pensait\u201d, <a class=\"ithalc\" data-ithal=\"lien_externe\" data-ithalc=\"[nav_article]\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2510462-hunting-with-poison-arrows-may-have-begun-60000-years-ago-in-africa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">commence New Scientist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9couvertes en 1985\u00a0sur le site arch\u00e9ologique d\u2019Umhlatuzana, dans la province du Kwazulu-Natal, ces fl\u00e8ches avaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 pu \u00eatre dat\u00e9es, mais la pr\u00e9sence de poison sur les pointes manifestement recouvertes d\u2019un liquide collant n\u2019avait pas pu \u00eatre d\u00e9montr\u00e9e de mani\u00e8re concluante. Cette fois, <a class=\"ithalc\" data-ithal=\"lien_externe\" data-ithalc=\"[nav_article]\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adz3281\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">les r\u00e9sultats pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s dans Sciences Advances le 7\u00a0janvier <\/a>sont sans \u00e9quivoque.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cL\u2019analyse par chromatographie en phase gazeuse coupl\u00e9e \u00e0 la spectrom\u00e9trie de masse a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 la pr\u00e9sence d\u2019alcalo\u00efdes toxiques d\u2019origine v\u00e9g\u00e9tale sur cinq des dix microlithes de quartz analys\u00e9s\u201d, \u00e9crivent les auteurs de l\u2019\u00e9tude. Ces alcalo\u00efdes proviennent probablement d\u2019un exsudat laiteux des racines de Boophone disticha, une esp\u00e8ce de plante \u00e0 fleurs, bulbeuse, end\u00e9mique d\u2019Afrique.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSi cela n\u2019avait concern\u00e9 qu\u2019une pointe de fl\u00e8che, cela aurait pu \u00eatre le fruit du hasard, fait remarquer Marlize Lombard, de l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Johannesburg, qui a pilot\u00e9 ces travaux. Le fait qu\u2019on retrouve ces traces sur 5\u00a0des 10 artefacts examin\u00e9s est tout simplement extraordinaire, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEn Afrique du Sud, des traces de toxines d\u2019origine v\u00e9g\u00e9tale ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couvertes sur des pointes de fl\u00e8ches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[64,7775,7774,7773,6738,6337],"class_list":{"0":"post-11424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrique","8":"tag-afrique","9":"tag-archu00e9ologie","10":"tag-chasse","11":"tag-pru00e9histoire","12":"tag-sciences","13":"tag-sciences-et-environnement"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}