Birch tar, a sticky, dark substance, served as a powerful adhesive, allowing the Neanderthals to craft tools and weapons with precision. The team identified the hearth based on its remains in this ...

Neanderthals were consummate hunters of ... Composite technology: Refers to tools and weapons that consist of several parts, such as stone points hafted to a wooden shaft. Cursorial: An animal ...

Only a handful of Neanderthal tools bear signs of adhesive ... you would expect them only to do it with special hunting weapons, but they did it with special domestic tools as well.