Sticky orange coating on a 6,000-year-old Yukon dart came from a beaver’s anal sac

As alpine ice melts, hundreds of ancient artifacts have been recovered from the southern Yukon.

Source: Sticky orange coating on a 6,000-year-old Yukon dart came from a beaver’s anal sac

 


Fuckin’ beavers! Is there nothing they can’t do?


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OldRod: So… they just happened to have some secretions from a beaver’s anal sac to compare this to?

Castoreum comes from a beaver’s bum sacs.  It is sometimes used in food, but also in any “manly” smelling cologne.  Basically, the smell you think of as “cowboy” is really “beaver’s asshole”.

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