SocraticGadfly: Got milk? They did 8,000 years ago

August 21, 2008

Got milk? They did 8,000 years ago

New archaeological findings say that Anatolians had, if not milk, then butter, ghee or yogurt, as far back as 8,000 years ago.

The findings are important in two regards.

First, they push the history of milk products back by a full 2,000 years.

Second, by the most prominent finds being outside the Fertile Crescent, it indicates different aspects of plant and animal agriculture domestication didn’t go hand in hand.

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