birch
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"Alongside these findings, there is also growing evidence of medicinal practices and the use of plants among Neanderthals, which is why we were interested in the use of birch tar in this context," says Siemssen.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
In particular, birch tar would have helped them attach stone blades or points to wooden handles, a technique known as hafting.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
One technique involved placing birch bark inside a sealed underground pit and heating it with little or no oxygen.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Scientists have discovered that birch tar, a material commonly associated with prehistoric toolmaking, has antibacterial properties that could have made it useful as an ancient form of medicine.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Brian made a small spoonlike holder out of birch bark.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
In my Connecticut backyard, I’ve been reclaiming the turf under my maples and birches by planting native ferns, geraniums and woodland asters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Around 700,000 years ago, dense forests of pines, birches, and chestnut relatives gave way to more open habitats with larger patches of grassland.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024
On another visit to the North Cascades, I saw vine maples alternating with birches and alders in deep forest.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
Overhead, woodpeckers tapped their rhythmic codes into the dead wood of paper birches.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
Elizabeth spent most of the days in a precarious tree-house they had built the previous summer between three great birches on the lake shore.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
In Britain, by long tradition the novelist cuts his teeth on the old school in order to bite the hand that birched him, but the school novel is a comparative rarity in U.S. letters.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this be true, I feel sure that Mr. Urban's stars glistened on eucalyptical roses whilst potted canopied moonlit sprays birched on every garden of gauze.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Great-Grandfather birched Grandfather for sneaking into the hayloft with a yellow, blue and green wrapped copy of Deadwood Dick on Deck, worrywarts have viewed U.S. reading habits with alarm.
From Time Magazine Archive
He himself once boasted that sixteen of the bishops who then occupied the bench had been birched with his "little rod".
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
I hated this, and would rather have been birched secundum artem than to have seen the girls giggling at me.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
The European Court is expected to condemn the practice this spring, forcing Britain to outlaw birching on the isle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although birching was finally banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have not as much as had a birching; and I say that the college masters ought to be hooted.
From The Channings by Mrs. Henry Wood
I do believe that I am trembling like a refractory scholar with a prospective birching.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution by Oliver Bell Bunce
He could not endure another public expulsion, or even another birching; he could not endure the cold faces of even his best friends.
From Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
