[SunkenCiv]

A rock art depiction of domesticated cattle thought to date to between 8,000 and 5,000 years ago comes from a part of the Sahara Desert where chemical evidence now shows that people milked cattle 7,000 years ago. Roberto Ceccacci, © The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara/Sapienza Univ. of Rome

[webheart]

Doesn’t he mean they gotted milk?

[Reeses]

Butter was a major discovery. Enough of it makes anything edible, even Brussels sprouts.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“implies that one of the reasons local African peoples adopted cattle was for their milk products,”

But, but years ago I heard a black woman say that dairys were racist because many blacks cannot digest milk!

[Tucker39]

“Ancient North Africans got milk: Herders began dairying around 7,000 years ago.....”

Well........yeah! Since Creation took place approximately 6K to 10K years ago, that figure would be inside the ballpark....right near second base, as I see it.

[Renfield]

...But many contained chemical signatures that were unambiguously from animal fats, the researchers report today in the journal Nature. Analyses revealed the remains of dairy products made from cow, goat and sheep’s milk, dating back to between 7,200 and 5,800 years ago.

Yet another instance of bad science (or bad reporting)...it could be that the herders weren't African (i.e., not Negroid)...remember the post I made the other day that contained the tidbit about the genetic haplotype that emerged in Europe and then migrated back to Africa?

[married21]

To prehistoric dairymen/maids: Thank you, from the bottom of my ice-cream lovin’ heart.