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Clay pot fragments reveal early start to cheese-making, a marker for civilization
Phys.org ^
| 1-10-2013
| John Sullivan
Posted on 01/12/2013 5:52:13 AM PST by Renfield
(Phys.org)As a young archaeologist, Peter Bogucki based his groundbreaking theory on the development of Western civilization on the most ancient of human technology, pottery. But it took some of the most modern developments in biochemistryand 30 years finally to confirm he was right.
While working as director of studies at one of Princeton University's residential colleges in the 1980s, Bogucki theorized that the development of cheese-making in Europea critical indicator of an agricultural revolutionoccurred thousands of years earlier than scientists generally believed. His insight, based on a study of perforated potsherds that Bogucki helped recover from dig sites in Poland, promised to change the scientific understanding of how ancient Western civilization developed.
Bogucki published his theory in a 1984 article in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Although his detective work was extensive, it was impossible to prove the bits of pottery were the remains of a cheese maker, rather than some other type of strainer.
There the matter lay, until researchers at the University of Bristol used a new type of test to measure ancient molecular remnants embedded within the pottery....
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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Food; History; Science
KEYWORDS: agriculture; animalhusbandry; archaeology; cheese; cheesemaking; dietandcuisine; fromage; godsgravesglyphs; lactose; lactoseintolerance; lactosetolerance; milk
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posted on
01/12/2013 5:52:20 AM PST
by
Renfield
To: All
At Last! After 9 years on FR, I finally get to post an article using the “Cheese-Moose-Sister” keyword.
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posted on
01/12/2013 5:53:20 AM PST
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/12/2013 5:53:43 AM PST
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
I like cheese !
(bookmark for after shower)
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posted on
01/12/2013 5:55:39 AM PST
by
tomkat
(HELL NO)
To: Renfield
“Blessed are the cheese makers. “
“This IS a cheese shop?”
Needed to get my python in.
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posted on
01/12/2013 6:00:25 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Salamander; Slings and Arrows
In keeping with this morning's theme -
"Cheese!"
Behold! A "marker" for civilization!
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posted on
01/12/2013 6:01:15 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: Renfield
Bogucki theorized that the development of cheese-making in Europea critical indicator of an agricultural revolutionoccurred thousands of years earlier than scientists generally believed. And shortly after the first Green Bay Packers fans were born.
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posted on
01/12/2013 6:08:21 AM PST
by
Hugin
("Most times a man'll tell you his bad intentions, if you listen and let yourself hear."---Open Range)
To: Renfield
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posted on
01/12/2013 6:20:14 AM PST
by
dljordan
(Voltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: Renfield
Blessed are the cheesemakers . . .
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posted on
01/12/2013 7:08:16 AM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
To: Renfield
Cheese-Moose-Sister keyword.
But you forgot the "turophile" ping-list...
To: dljordan
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posted on
01/12/2013 9:10:55 AM PST
by
444Flyer
To: Renfield
Cheese-making is a mark of civilization? Can cutting the cheese be far behind?
To: Renfield
cheese-making, a marker for civilization "Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products."
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posted on
01/12/2013 10:31:04 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - Rene "Popeye" Descartes)
To: shibumi; Salamander; Renfield
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posted on
01/12/2013 11:24:43 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Oh.
You are in such trouble now.
;D
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posted on
01/12/2013 11:26:07 AM PST
by
Salamander
(This is my tagline. There are many others like it but this one is mine.)
To: Salamander
Guess I’d better cheese it. ;^)
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posted on
01/12/2013 11:27:28 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Blessed are the cheese makers.
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
01/12/2013 11:38:16 AM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Be careful visiting - they’re in the PA.
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posted on
01/12/2013 11:42:08 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Renfield
Go Green Bay Packers! Love the cheese heads but loathe head cheese. ick
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posted on
01/12/2013 1:57:55 PM PST
by
JouleZ
(You are the company you keep.)
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