[SunkenCiv]

Corded Ware sherds. Image; Finnish National Board of Antiquities

[MeshugeMikey]

but but Louisi Farraklown says europeans were living like monkeys back then???

[Sherman Logan]

an incoming ... population

For some reason, Europeans moving into America or Australia are never described this way.

[Madam Theophilus]

Ah ha! So dairy should be included in the paleo diet after all! :-)

Low carb bing

[ConservativeInPA]

Lead author Dr Lucy Cramp, from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Bristol University, said: “This is remarkable evidence which proves that four and a half thousand years ago, Stone Age people must have been foddering and sheltering domesticated animals over harsh winters, in conditions that even nowadays we would find challenging.”

I guess Dr. Cramp never heard of the Sami. My mother's side of family are Finns, actually Sami. They immigrated from Finland to Minnesota in the early 1890's and became dairy farmers. Previously they were reindeer herders ... And guess where the got their milk. This was in a time before electricity, combustion engines, chainsaws, tractors and other "necessities" of today. I suspect the Sami had been living that way for a very long time and it would be news to them it wasn't that way for a very long time.

[smokingfrog]

Got milk?

[Viiksitimali]

Neolithic dairy farming at the extreme of agriculture in northern Europe
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1791/20140819.full

[OldNewYork]

Interesting this is so in a non-Indo-European area.