Neanderthals May Have Been The First To Carefully Concoct This Substance

The first synthetic substance ever brewed on planet Earth may not have been a product of our own species but was concocted by a close relative as far back as around 200,000 years ago.
Researchers from the University of Tübingen and the State Museum of Prehistory in Germany and Strasbourg University in France recently conducted a complex chemical analysis on Neanderthal artifacts made using birch tar, concluding how it was extracted wasn't incidental.
Neanderthals May Have Been The First To Carefully Concoct This Substance