[SunkenCiv]

• Tools with handles even more ancient | 12/15/2008

[knarf]

Yes, cousin OOGA, it has been spoken of by my grandfather that after one moon's journey towards the setting sun you will arrive in the great, magical forest whose trees cry tears of binding for our kill sticks.

Go and get some and return with haste that we may kill the great Tatonka and eat this coming cold time.

[Bob434]

Lies! LIES! They used Gorilla Glue and Gorilla Tape, and they also used flex glue to repair their gutters-

[deadrock]

[C210N]

In one case, that resin had also been mixed with beeswax...

Makes perfect sense honeybees would be in the mix. The pine tree glue referred to in the article is the stuff honeybees collect to make propolis. Propolis is "bee glue", they use to seal hive holes, cover attackers, and use anywhere like we use duct tape. It tastes a bit like dentyne, and is used in many antiseptic formulations for handcremes and other cosmetics.

[SMGFan]

and they died out because sniffed it too much. And Homo sapiens killed them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

[elteemike]

Looks like the formula for Cutler’s Resin goes back a long way to the Neanderthal...Pine resin, a substrate like charcoal or even pulverized deer poop, and beeswax cooked together and used to fix blades and points to shafts and handles...Works and still in use today...

[Openurmind]

The Southwestern Indians would apply pine resin and cook the hafted point and shaft slowly next to a fire. The resin would become rock hard and permanent, The point would break first.