Los neandertales usarían alquitrán de abedul no solo como pegamento, sino también para como medicina por sus propiedades antibacterianas:
Antibacterial properties of experimentally produced birch tar and its medicinal affordances in the Pleistocene
Birch tar is well-documented for its use as an adhesive in the Middle Palaeolithic of Europe, but other uses remain poorly explored. Drawing from recent arguments suggesting multimodal uses of…
