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Discovery of Prehistoric Baby Bottles Shows Infants Were Fed Cow's Milk 5,000 Years Ago
Phys dot org ^
| September 26, 2019
| Julie Dunne, The Conversation
Posted on 10/18/2019 6:22:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/18/2019 6:22:07 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/18/2019 6:22:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/18/2019 6:23:55 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
I’m not seeing a proven causal link between feeding animal milk to human babies and lower infant mortality. The fact that the baby-feeding jars were found in children’s graves doesn’t obviously imply a positive correlation!
Another possibility to explain growing population is that more sedentary lives meant mothers could nurse babies more successfully, or that fewer children died from accidents associated with nomadic life.
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posted on
10/18/2019 6:52:42 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
To: SunkenCiv
Teats went out of use 5k yrs ago?
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posted on
10/18/2019 6:56:11 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/18/2019 6:57:28 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Tax-chick
I think the point it, again, we’ve been doing it for millenia (literally), not just a fly-by-night fad. Which is funny, because many of the “health” things are EXACTLY that.
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posted on
10/18/2019 7:00:04 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Yes, that is a point, and not a surprise. There is obvious utility, especially in cases of maternal death.
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posted on
10/18/2019 7:01:59 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow! That’s a lot of cow farts. I am amazed we weren’t in climate crisis melienia ago.
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posted on
10/18/2019 7:03:14 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Not so fast there, denier! The earf started warming about 18,000 years ago. :)
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posted on
10/18/2019 7:18:59 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: SunkenCiv
I like that the baby bottles were shipped like various small animals to provide entertainment value for the baby.
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posted on
10/18/2019 7:20:49 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
To: TigersEye
“The earf started warming about 18,000 years ago. :”
For that I’m thankful too.
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posted on
10/18/2019 7:37:06 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I hear you! I hate being cold.
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posted on
10/18/2019 7:41:10 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: SunkenCiv
OK, I understand the ceramic
bottles, but surely they didn't use ceramic nipples. I mean, babies don't 'drink', they suckle - it is instinctive.
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posted on
10/18/2019 7:48:06 PM PDT
by
Bob Ireland
(The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
To: SunkenCiv
It seems they ate many of the things we eat today, including various types of meat, dairy products, fish, vegetables and honey.Amazing. I wonder how far back you'd have to go to find that people didn't eat these things. Proteins, fats, oils, carbs....
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posted on
10/18/2019 8:11:16 PM PDT
by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: Deaf Smith
Wait til they excavate the site where they kept the breast pumps for working moms. I'm impressed that prehistoric dads had to hunt with stone tools but the moms had ceramic baby bottles to feed the babies.
It's like, like......
Yabba dabba doo
Flintstones, meet the Flintstones
They're the modern stone age family
From the town of Bedrock
They're a page right out of history
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posted on
10/18/2019 8:27:32 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Bob Ireland
Why do they assume these were for newborn infants? You cant feed a newborn cow milk.
They could have been for one or two year olds or whatever.
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posted on
10/18/2019 9:12:07 PM PDT
by
Persevero
(Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
To: Mastador1; SunkenCiv; All
Five thousand years ago was the copper age. Otsi the mountain mummy had a cooper ax with him when he died.
To: Mastador1
dads had to hunt with stone tools
The Stone Age lasted 3.4 million years and ended 8700-4500 B.C.
The Copper Age lasted from about 4500 B.C. to 3500 B.C.
The Bronze Age lasted from roughly 3500 to 1200 B.C.
These jugs are dated in the article to 5000 years ago or 3000 B.C.
So they are putatively from the Bronze Age depending on particular culture and local. Dad, therefore, was hunting with bronze-tipped arrows and spears.
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posted on
10/19/2019 3:19:28 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Persevero
***Why do they assume these were for newborn infants? You cant feed a newborn cow milk***
Good point - the assumption. You cannot feed cow's milk to infants? My memory of ancient practice was, if the mother cannot nurse, they used another lactating woman. Two-year-olds shouldn't need to nurse, should they?
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posted on
10/19/2019 10:57:21 AM PDT
by
Bob Ireland
(The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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