Middle Palaeolithic bitumen use at Umm el Tlel around 70,000 BP

• Autores: Eric Boëda, Stéphanie Bonilauri, Jacques Connan, Dan Jarvie, Norbert Mercier, Mark Tobey, Hélène Valladas, Heba al Sakhel, Sultan Muhesen
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 82, Nº 318, 2008, págs. 853-861
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The authors identify natural bitumen on stone implements dating to 70,000 BP. It is proposed that this represents residue from hafting, taking the practice back a further 30,000 years from the date previously noted and published in Nature. The bitumen was tracked to a source 40km away, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and carbon isotopes