Königsaue birch tar and experimental production techniques. a KBP1, Königsaue 1 (left); KBP2, Königsaue 2 (right). b Drawing of the condensation method; c cobble-groove condensation method; d the bark roll buried technique; e the pit roll technique; f raised structure. 1, birch bark; 2, birch tar. Explanations in the main text but also see supplementary information. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01789-2Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2023).
I emulaymy 2% Neanderthal cousins by going to Home Depot and buying adhesives made by Elmer or Phil Swift.
I believe I’ve read somewhere they had a larger cranium capacity and likely had more raw IQ than Homo sapiens.
They just look stupid to us, today.
Nanderthal chicks were easy.
No wonder those GEICO caveman commercials were so offensive. They were smarter than most of the apes leaving high school today.
“so easy, a caveman could do it”
Original gorilla glue
“…the Neanderthals who made the German birch tar used the most efficient method with a stepwise oxygen-restricted distillation process of underground heating to extract the synthetic adhesive.“
Sometimes I get the feeling that academia is trying to make the case that Neanderthals were a gentle highly intelligent race who were wiped out by us barbarian humans.
The birch tar used by Neanderthals predates any known adaptation by modern humans by 100,000 years.The humans outsourced it to China, so it took them a few extra years to figure out the assembly manual...
This is really cool. I’m surprised glue making goes back so far. I was also surprised that compound bows date back pretty far as well.
