Posted on 07/01/2019 9:19:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists working in two Italian caves have discovered some of the earliest known examples of ancient humans using an adhesive on their stone tools--an important technological advance called "hafting."
The new study, which included CU Boulder's Paola Villa, shows that Neanderthals living in Europe from about 55 to 40 thousand years ago traveled away from their caves to collect resin from pine trees. They then used that sticky substance to glue stone tools to handles made out of wood or bone...
...a chance discovery from Grotta del Fossellone and Grotta di Sant'Agostino, a pair of caves near the beaches of what is now Italy's west coast.
Those caves were home to Neanderthals who lived in Europe during the Middle Paleolithic period, thousands of years before Homo sapiens set foot on the continent. Archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,000 stone tools from the two sites, including pieces of flint that measured not much more than an inch or two from end to end.
...a chemical analysis of 10 flints using a technique called gas chromatography/mass spectrometry... showed that the stone tools had been coated with resin from local pine trees. In one case, that resin had also been mixed with beeswax.
Villa explained that the Italian Neanderthals didn't just resort to their bare hands to use stone tools. In at least some cases, they also attached those tools to handles to give them better purchase as they sharpened wooden spears or performed other tasks like butchering or scraping leather.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Early duct tape.
Go and get some and return with haste that we may kill the great Tatonka and eat this coming cold time.
Lies! LIES! They used Gorilla Glue and Gorilla Tape, and they also used flex glue to repair their gutters-
Nicely done!
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.
No, they didn’t have any Gorilla Glue. There are no gorillas in Europe.
Ambroid’s Cement. Can you still get that stuff? I used it to make model airplanes 60 years ago.
and they died out because sniffed it too much. And Homo sapiens killed them.
Thanks C210N!
imported- rush delivery- order by midnight, receive the next day- federal express delivery-
Horse glue just wasn’t cutting the mustard- so they switched to gorilla glue
No, they didn’t have any Gorilla Glue. There are no gorillas in Europe.
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And the gorillas don’t take very kindly to having anyone squeeze them for glue!
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...
A Rumination on the Invention of Soup
(e-SoupSong 23: March 1, 2002)
http://soupsong.com/zmar02.html
...I kind of like the Neanderthal theory. It was a particularly tough and dangerous world back then. These hunter-gatherers were stuck in the last blast of the Wurm glaciation that killed off so much of their food and so many species. It was every man for himself as they ran fearfully from—and ran hungrily after—woolly mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers, wolves, and other hominids. And yet elderly Neanderthal skeletons have been found in France with teeth worn down below gum level—and deeply crippled skeletons have been found too. Implication: They could only have been kept alive through the compassion of their communities and the brilliance of some nouvelle cuisine chef who could find food alternatives to incredibly indigestible plants, meat tougher than my old aunt’s shoes, and all of it cold. I try to put myself under the toque of that Stone Age Julia Child. I imagine him or her using bark to dip and carry water...putting food bits in it and noticing them soften or swell...marking how plants and berries, meat and marrow chunks would infuse the water with color and flavor. I imagine him or her getting the idea of warm broth from the 98.6 degree Fahrenheit mother’s milk that kept little Neanderthal babies happy.
They had to use pterodactyls for overnight delivery.
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