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University of Colorado at BoulderArchaeologists working in two Italian caves have discovered some of the earliest known examples of ancient humans using an adhesive on their stone tools--an important technological advance called "hafting."The new study, which included CU Boulder's Paola Villa, shows that Neanderthals living in Europe from about 55 to 40 thousand years ago traveled away from their caves to collect resin from pine trees. They then used that sticky substance to glue stone tools to handles made out of wood or bone.The findings add to a growing body of evidence that suggests that these cousins of Homo sapiens were more clever than some have made them out to be....https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/uoca-nur062619.php
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