title: Reconstructing adhesives : an experimental approach to organic palaeolithic technology
abstract: &lt;p&gt;The first use of birch tar adhesives by Neandertals over 191,000 years ago marked a significant technological development. The ability to produce entirely new materials through transformative processes was unlike anything that had been done before. In southern Africa, during the Middle Stone Age, humans made compound adhesives by combining disparate ingredients, a task which is believed to have required modern-like levels of cognition. However, for all of the significance given to ancie
journal: Leiden Repository (Leiden University)