Complex & durable: A bone splinter mounted on a shaft of pine wood with bast ligatures coated in birch bark tar.

J. Kabaciński et al. in
@Antiquity Feb. 2023 (🔓) on a fascinating #CompositeImplement from Early #Holocene Krzyż Wielkopolski 7, #Poland:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/expedient-and-efficient-an-early-mesolithic-composite-implement-from-krzyz-wielkopolski/1643912E306E21035C8D39928EED3AB3