Making Neanderthal Birch Tar Isn’t as Complex as Thought But even if Neanderthals were using a simpler method to produce the sticky resin, their use of it still suggests a level of planning and ...

Making birch tar at all is a fairly complex process. It takes multiple steps, lots of planning, and detailed knowledge of the materials and the process.

A piece of chewed birch bark tar gum unearthed in western Sweden has unlocked a window into ancient life, revealing the ...

Neanderthal tools might look relatively simple, but new research shows that Homo neanderthalensis devised a method of generating a glue derived from birch tar to hold them together about 200,000 ...

The birch tar used by Neanderthals predates any known adaptation by modern humans by 100,000 years. The sticky material was used as an adhesive backing to connect stone to bone and wood in tools ...

With further work, they found evidence that the hearth was used to create birch tar, a gloopy substance that was used by prehistoric humans to attach a handle to a tool or weapon (known as hafting ...

Making Of Birch Tar Proves Neanderthal Intelligence And Cooperation Just as one study challenges famous evidence for higher thinking among our nearest extinct relatives, there’s confirmation ...

Measuring complexity. Birch bark tar is the first time we see evidence of creating a new material, said Dr. Paul Kozowyk, lead author on one of the papers.

As a result of chemically analyzing birch tar, it was found that all birch tars were deprived of oxygen during the process of making them. Therefore, ...

Archaeologists who discovered a cave used by early humans some 60,000 years ago have made an incredible discovery, giving insight into the complexity of early humans. They found a pit dug into the ...

They even backed up their theory by building a similar structure and carrying out an experiment to see if they could cook up some birch tar. “Distilling a small bunch of young leaves of rockrose ...

The tar would have been used to make spears for hunting red deer, wild boar, and other animals, and for these early humans to protect themselves from predatory species like lions, wolves, and bears.