500-Year-Old Horn Container Discovered In South Africa Sheds Light On Pre-Colonial Khoisan Medicines

Unusual Parcel With 500-Year-Old Horn Container Discovered In South Africa Sheds Light On Pre-Colonial Khoisan Medicines

AncientPages.com – In 2020, a chance discovery near the small South African hamlet of Misgund in the Eastern Cape unearthed an unusual parcel – a gift to science. The parcel turned out to be a 500-year-old cow horn, capped with a leather lid and carefully wrapped in grᴀss and the leafy scales of a Bushman poison […]