Neanderthals may have used birch tar as more than just glue; it could have helped them ward off infection and even insect bites. What we call “birch tar” in English has a lot of other names in ...

The bark canoe of the Chippeways [Ojibwe] I is, perhaps, the most beautiful and light model of all the water crafts that were ever invented. They are generally made complete with the rind of one birch ...