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