[Article] Archaeology: The Milk Revolution

[cfhunter]

http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology- ... on-1.13471

 

[montmorency]

http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-the-milk-revolution-1.13471

Yes, very interesting.

Another reason to make cheese and yoghurt, would of course be that these keep better than milk when you have no refrigeration.

I wonder whether ancient people found sheep and goat's milk more tolerable than cow's.


To be honest though, I find it a little hard to believe that the mutation they talk about which made cow's milk tolerable for adults happened so recently in terms of evolutionary time.