Researchers have recreated birch tar using techniques associated with Neanderthals. Their results suggest material may have done double duty in prehistoric life ...

Researchers have recreated birch tar using techniques associated with Neanderthals and tested whether it could slow bacterial growth. Their results suggest the material may have done double duty in ...

Neanderthals may have used birch tar as more than just glue; it could have helped them ward off infection and even insect bites. People from several modern Indigenous cultures, in ...

A new study explores whether birch tar, long associated with Neanderthal toolmaking, may have served another purpose as well.

Researchers have found that birch tar produced using methods available to Neanderthals carries measurable antibacterial ...

Neanderthals likely used the sticky substance to build and repair tools, but it also may have had another important use. With its antibiotic properties, birch tar could also treat wounds. The findings ...

By collecting bark from a dead birch tree (left) and processing it in a fire pit (center), Oxford’s Tjaark Siemssen prepared ...

Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the York Weekly in 2013. Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine – One of the oldest-known examples of a Native American birch-bark canoe is on display at a museum in Maine, where indigenous tribes have used them for thousands of years. The canoe ...

Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the York Weekly in 2013. Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — One of the oldest-known examples of a Native American birch-bark canoe is on display at a museum in Maine, where indigenous tribes have used them for thousands of years. The ...