摘要：Bow hunting with poisoned arrows is well documented among southern African San hunter-gatherers. 1-3 Less wellknown is the great variety of toxic plants that were – or could have been – used for this purpose. 4-6 Most chemistrystudies in which the ingredients of San poison arrows have been investigated focused on the more commonlyknown Chrysomelidae family of leaf beetle, which includes the Diamphidia and Polyclada genera. 7-10 Few studiesthus far have been devoted specifically to plant poison ingredients, 11,12 and most of these studies are now severaldecades old. Now with the availability of new, more advanced, sensitive and reliable chemical detection techniques,we may be able to identify plant-based toxins present on archaeological artefacts.
