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Article: Poison Arrows: North American Indian Hunting and Warfare.
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- CML Army Chemical Review
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- December 22, 2007
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Poison Arrows: North American Indian Hunting and Warfare, David E. Jones, University of Texas Press, 1 February 2007.
"War is waged with weapons, not with poisons" is the saying the Roman army used in response to the Germanic practice of poisoning wells. This has given some scholars the mistaken notion that poisoned weapons were historically rare. Poison Arrows adds to the growing body of knowledge on how unexceptional poisoned weapons were in antiquarian societies.
After a crude introduction to the general history of chemical-biological warfare, the author explains why many scholars may have missed the importance of using poisons in the North American ...