A University of Copenhagen team analysed thirty tar lumps from nine Alpine lake settlements, detecting male DNA on tool ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have, for the first time, identified the use of birch bark tar in medieval England -- the use of which was previously thought to be limited to prehistory. Scientists from the University of ...