75,000-Year-Old Fire Pit Shows Neanderthal Innovation With Tar
We typically associate the word "caveman" with unrefined simpleness. Based on a brand-new finding, perhaps we should, rather, utilize it as a stand-in for technological development. Scientist found a brand-new sort of fire pit going back about 75,000 years. After evaluating its unique style-- a ringed trench instead of a basic pit-- and the traces of chemical parts left by burning, they figured out that Neanderthals utilized it to produce tar from rockrose (Cistus ladanifer). They then used that tar to connect stone to wood for making both tools and weapons. The researchers reverse-engineered the approaches the Neanderthals likely utilized in this procedure and showed that they did undoubtedly produce tar. They reported their lead to Quaternary Scientific Reviews. Utilizing FireIt's basica...