Cavemen may have used an extract from birch tree bark to treat injuries, suggests new research. Neanderthals probably used birch tar for several purposes - including treating wounds - thousands of ...

Birch bark tar is one of the oldest synthetic materials in the world, with some of the earliest finds linked to Neanderthals living in Europe around 190,000 years ago. Now, new research published in ...

In a new study conducted by the University of Cologne, the University of Oxford, the University of Liège and Cape Breton University in Canada, researchers used methods that Neanderthals also used to ...

COLOGNE, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the Public Library of Science, Neanderthals may have used birch-bark tar to treat their wounds. The hominins are known to have used the tar as an ...

Researchers gathered bark from two species of trees—downy birch and silver birch—on public land in Germany. Then, they used it to produce birch tar via three extraction techniques. Tjaark Siemssen ...