Who Really Invented Glue?

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00:00Think humans invented glue. Think again. Archaeologists have discovered the first ever glue.

00:06And it wasn't us. It was the Neanderthals nearly 200,000 years ago. We don't know exactly how they

00:12made it, but they used tar from birch trees. The process was complicated, so complex it would

00:19challenge us even today. This primitive glue wasn't just a sticky mess. It held stone tips

00:24onto wooden spears, helping them hunt and survive in a dangerous world. So the next time you grab a

00:31bottle of glue, remember this. A species that's been gone for tens of thousands of years paved the

00:37way for something we use every single day. Neanderthals, the original inventors of glue.