[Alas Babylon!]

There are indications that the Neanderthals used this glue formula up to 200,000 years ago!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/experiments-show-how-neanderthals-made-first-glue-180964718/

[SunkenCiv]

Yup, thanks go out to our Neandertal ancestors.

• Neanderthals Clever Enough To Make 'Superglue' [2002]
• Tools with handles even more ancient [2008]
• What Chewed-Up Gum Reveals About Life in the Stone Age [DNA] [2018]
• Otzi the Iceman's tools tell a story of desperation [2019]
• Ancient chewing gum reveals Scandinavia's oldest human DNA [2019]
• World's oldest glue used from prehistoric times till the days of the Gauls [2019]