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Identification of Adhesive on Bone-Handled Microblades from the Houtaomuga Site in Northeast China (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Shaowu Lyu. Chunxue Wang. Quanchao Zhang. Lixin Wang. Ningning Liang.

With the emergence and development of composite tools in the Upper Paleolithic, adhesives became one of the most widely used materials by early human societies. Of particular interest is to know which animal/plant species were being exploited for glue manufacturing. The Houtaomuga site, located in northeast China, provides favorable materials for the identification of organic residues; and a few bone-handled microblades were collected from this site. In this study, we scraped micro adhesive...