Inset (A) location and chronology of the earliest upland dry-stone structures in the Alps with secure dates; the Iron Age Hut of Val Fenga during excavation (C). From Fig 1 of PLOS ONE e0151442. Credit: Carrer F, et al. PLOS ONE
Posted on 04/26/2016 11:30:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Dairy fats on Iron Age pottery sherds, evidence of pre-historic origin for dairying.
The discovery of dairy fats on ancient pottery may indicate dairying high in the Alps occurred as early as the Iron Age over 3000 years ago, according to a study published April 21, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Francesco Carrer from the University of York, UK, and colleagues.
Dairy farming has long been an important economic and cultural tradition in the European high Alps, but little is known about when and how the practice originated. Using organic residue analysis, the authors of the present study found evidence of dairy fats present on pottery sherds from ancient stone structures high in the Alps. The authors suggest that these potsherds, dated to the Iron Age, may have been used for dairying, such as heating milk, earlier than had been previously shown.
While only a small number of fragments were available for analysis due to poor preservation at high altitudes, the recovery of dairy fats from all three Iron Age sites may indicate that high alpine dairying began at least 3000 years ago. The authors suggest that these findings are early evidence of nutritious resources being produced and exchanged for purposes of socioeconomic development, and are strongly tied to traditions, such as alpine cheese-making, that continue today.
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Inset (A) location and chronology of the earliest upland dry-stone structures in the Alps with secure dates; the Iron Age Hut of Val Fenga during excavation (C). From Fig 1 of PLOS ONE e0151442. Credit: Carrer F, et al. PLOS ONE
Dude! We’re doing this in Colorado! It’s awesome, dude!
ICE CREAM!!!
Milk is great, whether from four legged or two legged sources.
Yummy!!
It ain’t civilization till they invent CHEESE!
Here are a couple I couldn’t post, copyright complaints, that fit here:
Our love affair with mountain cheese began in the Iron Age
http://qz.com/668001/our-love-affair-with-mountain-cheese-began-in-the-iron-age/
3D print of Oetzi the [Lactose-intolerant] Ice Man revealed
http://www.thelocal.at/20160420/3d-print-of-oetzi-the-ice-man-revealed
(originally linked here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3423883/posts?page=2#2 )
LoL!
Thanks!
I just watched a program about building the Bugatti Veyron. It takes nine cowhides for the leather interior and they use cattle raised at high altitudes, which means no barbed wire fences and fewer insect bites to flaw the material.
The Camembert that time forgot.
Fossilised Cheese can be very dangerous. :)
How do you milk a chicken?
Sounds like some serious attention to detail. :’)
New ones are around 3 million plus - V-16 engine putting out 1200 horsepower, top speed over 250 mph. Set of tires, 30-40K. Tuneup and oil change can run 50K. It’s a little out of my price range, sadly.
My ancestors fleeing religious persecution in the Valle de joux of Canton Vaud, Switzerland came to east Tennessee and promptly began to produce cheese for the market.
The cheese house still stands on Washington Pike in Knoxville.
However, since there are mo moose this far south, my sister was never bit
Swiss cattle have short front legs so they can be milked on the level on any mountain. Evolution, & now this discovery proves it.
;^)
I’ve milked a chick in the long ago past but alas it’s fading from mammary.
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