Poison Arrows North American Indian Hunting and Warfare

Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of arsenical smoke in China, which dates to at least 1000 BC, for example) the use of "poison arr...

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In English
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh
Arrow poisons North America
Indian weapons North America
Indians of North America Ethnobotany
Indians of North America Hunting
Neurotoxic agents North America
Poisonous animals North America
Poisonous plants North America
https://doi.org/10.7560/714281 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext
spellingShingle Jones, David E.
Poison Arrows North American Indian Hunting and Warfare
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Arrow poisons North America
Indian weapons North America
Indians of North America Ethnobotany
Indians of North America Hunting
Neurotoxic agents North America
Poisonous animals North America
Poisonous plants North America
title Poison Arrows North American Indian Hunting and Warfare
title_auth Poison Arrows North American Indian Hunting and Warfare
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title_full Poison Arrows North American Indian Hunting and Warfare David E. Jones
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Arrow poisons North America
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Indians of North America Ethnobotany
Indians of North America Hunting
Neurotoxic agents North America
Poisonous animals North America
Poisonous plants North America
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