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Posted on 04/13/2023 8:27:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...This conclusion was drawn from an analysis of residues found in clay vessels discovered in the Kujawy-Pomerania Province...
In 2016, while conducting rescue excavations in the vicinity of the village of Sławęcinek (Kujawy-Pomerania), archaeologists discovered ceramic vessels in a Late Neolithic layer (approximately 3650-3100 years ago). The excavation also revealed traces of a small settlement that included four houses, wells, and burial sites.
To investigate the vessels and the deposits on their surface, the researchers utilized a multi-stranded proteomic and lipid-analysis. By comparing proteomic data, it is possible to directly identify cheesemaking and other dairy processing methods that enrich curds by examining the proportion of curd proteins...
Further evidence of multiple species used for cheesemaking was the presence of both cow and sheep or goat bones on the archaeological site.
During the Neolithic period, lactose intolerance was prevalent, affecting nearly all inhabitants of Europe. It wasn't until the Late Bronze Age when a genetic mutation became widespread... At the same time, cattle farmers discovered techniques to reduce the lactose content in milk through methods such as cheese-making or yogurt production.
Evidence for the consumption of dairy products includes the remains of vessels with 'milk residues' preserved from those times in various regions. A similar argument are dairy proteins found in the dental plaque of Neolithic humans. There are also bones of cattle with kill patterns expected for dairy animals.
There is mounting archaeological evidence indicating that milk consumption has been a practice in Central Europe dating back to the Neolithic era. Fat particles characteristic of dairy products were discovered on ceramic vessels unearthed in modern-day Poland and Hungary, estimated to be from the 6th millennium BC. Furthermore, traces of cheese production dating back over 7,000 years have been identified on vessels excavated in Kujawy.
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BTW, my ass regarding when lactose tolerance emerged. IMHO the idea that lactose intolerance was universal is just another part of the white supremacist imperialist myths.
CHEESE!.......................
Lactose intolerance started with Japeth.................
It’s just funny they spend hours money “studying” something that would be obvious ancient drank animal milk and so therefore probably has most of the dairy by products as well. Milk shaking in bags and wagons is inevitably gonna create butter sour milk will make sour cream yogurt and on and on. Science needs to tel me something that isn’t obvious.
Vietnamese are in large part lactose intolerant. When people started getting a bit more prosperous most quit cooking in the yard over fires that were never extinguished. The kept pots of bones on that fire when not cooking and periodically added wood underneath and water into the pot. They used the bone broth in cooking and the kids all grew up they got plenty of calcium. Between 2005 and 2010 most of the folks in my town switched to bottled gas two burner rigs and the bone broth disappeared. I was shocked when I went back in 2010 and most of the small children had black or stubby teeth. No calcium in the diet. The own had prospered enough to buy the gas hotplates but lost the bone broth in the process. It is way too expensive to keep those pots going full time on gas and they were not yet eating more meet. The urban areas have had rapidly rising prosperity and the diet is much more carnivorous, more food generally and you don’t see all the bad teeth on the little ones now. And I am going back again this fall.
Interesting. A little early, but have a good trip. :^)
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