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World Service,1 min

How to make 200,000 year old glue

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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. Credit: Getty Images

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