Posted on 10/15/2010 7:56:47 AM PDT by Palter
New research has revealed that agriculture came to Europe amid a wave of immigration from the Middle East during the Neolithic period. The newcomers won out over the locals because of their sophisticated culture, mastery of agriculture -- and their miracle food, milk.
Wedged in between dump trucks and excavators, archeologist Birgit Srock is drawing the outline of a 7,200-year-old posthole. A concrete mixing plant is visible on the horizon. She is here because, during the construction of a high-speed rail line between the German cities of Nuremberg and Berlin, workers happened upon a large Neolithic settlement in the Upper Franconia region of northern Bavaria.
The remains of more than 40 houses were unearthed, as well as skeletons, a spinning wheel, bulbous clay vessels, cows' teeth and broken sieves for cheese production -- a typical settlement of the so-called Linear Pottery culture (named after the patterns on their pottery).
This ancient culture provided us with the blessing of bread baking. At around 5300 BC, everyone in Central Europe was suddenly farming and raising livestock. The members of the Linear Pottery culture kept cows in wooden pens, used rubbing stones and harvested grain. Within less than 300 years, the sedentary lifestyle had spread to the Paris basin.
The reasons behind the rapid shift have long been a mystery. Was it an idea that spread through Central Europe at the time, or an entire people?
Peaceful Cooperation or Invasion?
Many academics felt that the latter was inconceivable. Agriculture was invented in the Middle East, but many researchers found it hard to believe that people from that part of the world would have embarked on an endless march across the Bosporus and into the north.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Milk, ping.
Horses aren't on there so maybe the artist didn't realize that they are a MAJOR source of milk in any horse culture. I can purchase mare's milk cheese in over a dozen stores in this community.
Recent in depth studies regarding the modern spread of lactose tolerance among the Sa'ami indicate that it's not exactly the auto-somal recessive it was formerly believed to be.
A single allele is enough to confer the beneficial effect on a person provided the local environment has milk available. That increases the rate of spread to near lightspeed ~ half a dozen generations and EVERYBODY's got it.
Alexander The Grate was The Mac_Cheese_Donutian who conquered the world?
All in all this is a Cheesy Post!
In fact, of course, it was generally quite the opposite. We are all descended from the successful practitioners of genocide. The victims left no descendants.
Horses aren’t on there so maybe the artist didn’t realize that they are a MAJOR source of milk in any horse culture. I can purchase mare’s milk cheese in over a dozen stores in this community.
I thought this was going to be about how mooselimb men can drink breast milk from the women they dragged along while at war!
Never mind.
They also talk about “Asians” not having the gene to digest milk. This is true of most south Asians, but most north Asians have lived on the stuff for millenia. Mongols and all that.
So they migrated b/c they were running away from milk? I read that cows invented fire.
Huh? Do they mean a spindle? Wheels did not come into use until the middle ages.
The "mutation" (Yes, we can call it that, a mutation imbedded in the matrices of mutant milk drinkers) started somewhere, and spread.
It only takes one copy to give you the gift, which will continue on into adulthood provided you continue to consume milk and milk byproducts.
Worth noting many East Asian people who believe they can drink milk (without also taking lactose pills) consume vast quantities of kim chee and saurkraut (same thing, different continent). That's where they get their lactase enzymes. BTW, cabbage grows well at high latitudes. Also worth noting East Asians who don't eat their kim chee discover the gift of projectile vomiting if their little problem begins at the pyloric valve! I have seen cookies tossed 10 meters over a large campfire.
I tell them "Read the labels" and eat no cheese aged less than 1 year.
Remember, once a tribe had corralled a bunch of animals in Springtime they'd milk females, select out the culls for slaughter and drying, lunched on a few young foals or kids, and then they'd turn the animals loose to go back eating the plants then growing freely on unsurveyed and enclosed lands.
People did that with horses, goats, sheep, donkeys, cattle, reindeer, elk, etc. They were "mighty hunters" already in command of the herds. Domestication came later as surplus vegetative matter suitable for animal feed became available. Then some tribal warlord figured out he could use people to feed the animals while protecting them from wild beasts.
Spun cloth was current at least around 500 BCE. Wheels were in use by 2000 BCE at least over a large portion of EurAsia.
The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
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Certain northern Africa cattle rearing tribes consume a blood and milk mixture, which they obtain by puncturing a neck vein of their cattle, and draining off a little blood. Apparently this is their primary article of food. Also I have read that if children stop drinking milk, they are likely to become lactose sensitive, but that continuing to drink milk into adulthood reduces the likelihood of developing sensitivity.
Indiana?
And just *who* are these people anyway? ;D
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