Materials · c. 16,000 years ago

Lime plaster

Burned limestone that sets back into stone.

Tool residues at Lagama North VIII in Sinai, around 14000 BCE, are interpreted as lime-plaster adhesive. By about 10000 BCE, Natufian people at Nahal Ein Gev II used high-quality lime plaster to cover burials. Lime binders later served in floors and statues, and eventually in mortar and Roman concrete.

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