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Name: Pfyn culture flint tool What it is: A flint tool with a wooden handle and birch tar Where it is from: Öhningen, southern Germany When it was made: 3800 to 3500 B.C. Related: What it tells ...

Notes: bergamot, lavender, birch tar, rose, iris absolute, cardamom seed, sandalwood Indonesia, cedar wood, oak moss and cade.

These artifacts reveal not only expertise in manufacturing but also sophistication in material selection. The use of olive wood and cane for the shafts, combined with birch tar application, suggests a ...

“It seems, from the results obtained, that the tar was extracted from gum rockrose (Cistus ladanifer) instead of birch. Birch would have been a rare tree in these Mediterranean latitudes whereas ...

“We managed to produce a significant amount of tar in a relevant period of time of not more than 4 hours, counting from collecting wood to hafting,” the authors said in the paper. They theorized that ...

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Sarah Pickin, 23, found the lump of birch bark tar while on a dig in western Finland. Neolithic people used the material as an antiseptic to treat gum infections, as well as a glue for repairing pots.