YouTube: Ancient Europeans remained intolerant to lactose for 5,000 years after they adopted agriculture
Posted on 11/02/2014 8:20:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv
By analysing DNA extracted from the petrous bones of skulls of ancient Europeans, scientists have identified that these peoples remained intolerant to lactose (natural sugar in the milk of mammals) for 5,000 years after they adopted agricultural practices and 4,000 years after the onset of cheese-making among Central European Neolithic farmers.
The findings published in the scientific journal Nature Communications (21 Oct) also suggest that major technological transitions in Central Europe between the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age were also associated with major changes in the genetics of these populations.
For the study, the international team of scientists examined nuclear ancient DNA extracted from thirteen individuals from burials from archaeological sites located in the Great Hungarian Plain, an area known to have been at the crossroads of major cultural transformations that shaped European prehistory. The skeletons sampled date from 5,700 BC (Early Neolithic) to 800 BC (Iron Age).
It took several years of experimentation with different bones of varying density and DNA preservation for the scientists to discover that the inner ear region of the petrous bone in the skull, which is the hardest bone and well protected from damage, is ideal for ancient DNA analysis in humans and any other mammals...
According to Professor Dan Bradley from the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, co-senior author on the paper, “our results also imply that the great changes in prehistoric technology including the adoption of farming, followed by the first use of the hard metals, bronze and then iron, were each associated with the substantial influx of ,new people. We can no longer believe these fundamental innovations were simply absorbed by existing populations in a sort of cultural osmosis.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ucd.ie ...
YouTube: Ancient Europeans remained intolerant to lactose for 5,000 years after they adopted agriculture
Only the cream of archaeologists in the study, but they’ll milk it for all it’s worth
Scientists are overgeneralizing quite a bit. 13 individuals in Hungary = all of early Europe. Especially given the variety in current Africa, with some tribes living next to each other, some are lactose intolerant and some are not, depending on the tribe.
Cheesy!
That would be a great way to end voter fraud.
“these peoples remained intolerant to lactose (natural sugar in the milk of mammals) for...4,000 years after the onset of cheese-making among Central European Neolithic farmers.”
Are they saying that lactose intolerant people continued to make cheese for 4,000 years after discovering that they couldn’t eat it?
Now Europeans celebrate Diversity AND Tolerance!
Europeans have now been proven to be intolerant, cusses...
Or cuds,,,,, erh puds....
I am reading a book on the history of British food, and back in medieval days, drinking milk from animals was not done — it was reserved for cheesemaking. Almond milk was common — which I had thought was a new invention.
I scream, you scream. We all scream when we eat ice cream.
If at first you don't succeed...
It's a triumph of the human spirit, I tell you.
I hate to think what they used for sprinkles.
LOL!
Ironic humor from my 18-year-old son.
In the dark with other lactose quirks but can eat (and LOVE) cheese...no problems there. But milk, ice cream, creamy soups are all a no go-or to be more exact a go go The only way ice cream can be eaten is to eat something at the same time to absorb the liquid. Milk is not missed but the cheese would be. Found chocolate ice cream and Fritos to be delicious combination and do live dangerously on occasion when the urge to have a milk shake or malt just can not be avoided.
HA!
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