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How to make 200,000 year old glue

Dr Geeske Langejans is an archaeologist from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands who studies prehistoric adhesives. She describes the oldest example of glue in the archaeological record – a tar made out of birch bark tar by Neanderthals 200,000 years ago.

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