At 17:27 1999-08-10 -0700, Wally wrote:

>Shouldn't we be differentiating here between
>"primitive" and "paleo"? I doubt very much if a true
>H/G would take the time or go to the trouble of
>extracting maple syrup from a tree.

People living in dry areas utilize every possible storage of
water. So why not sap?
I remember as a child I liked to get sap out of birches and drink.
It tasted nice.
There has been found stone age chewing gum, I don't remember if
neolitic or older, made from birch sap using a quite sophisticated method.

- Hans