Neandertals took stick-to-itiveness to a new level. Using just scraps of wood and hot embers, our evolutionary cousins figured out how to make tar, a revolutionary adhesive that they used to make ...

Archeological evidence of birch tar production does not mark the presence of technological, cognitive, or cultural complexity in Neanderthals or other hominins, a study suggests. Neanderthals produced ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --Neanderthals were using sophisticated methods to extract birch tar and use it as an adhesive in tool making. Scientists recently found traces of the ancient glue on the handle of a ...

Fifty-thousand years ago, a Neanderthal living in Northwestern Europe put sticky birch tar on the back side of a sharp flint flake to make the tool easier to grip. Eventually, that tool washed down ...

For centuries, Neanderthals were often portrayed as primitive, brutish beings. But a new discovery has challenged this long-held stereotype. A Neanderthal glue-making structure has been uncovered at ...

Over a hundred thousand years ago, Neanderthals used tar to bind objects together, yet scientists have struggled to understand how these ancient humans, with their limited knowledge and resources, ...

According to a study by the University of Tübingen and New York University (NYU), Neanderthals may not have been as clever as previously supposed. The experimental archaeology project found that a ...

No one today quite understands how they did it, but people in the Stone Age could turn ribbons of birch bark into sticky, black tar. They used this tar to make tools, fixing arrowheads onto arrows and ...

Neanderthals started using tar to make tools and weapons at least 200,000 years ago. The ability to stick pieces of bone or stone to a handle marked a key moment in their evolution, showing they had ...

For years, Neanderthals have been seen as simple hunters, relying on brute force to survive. But discoveries in Gibraltar are rewriting that narrative, according to illvet. Far from being primitive, ...