Indus Civilization People Ate Mainly Meat and Dairy Products

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Indus Civilization People Ate Mainly Meat and Dairy Products

An analysis of ceramic lipid residues from rural and urban sites of the Indus Civilization in northwest India provides chemical evidence for milk, meat of animals like pigs, cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat, and possible mixtures of products and/or plant consumption.

 

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Not very surprising, most cultures, even early farming ones, ate animal foods if possible.

the pottery in britain was mostly fish fat during hunter-gatherer times, and transitioned to mostly dairy fat after the Bell Beakers invaded.

Indian vegetarianism is a pretty recent phenomenon evolutionarily speaking, about 1000 years old.