When you pour a bowl of cereal, you probably aren't considering how humans came to enjoy milk in the first place. But animal milk was essential to east African herders at least 5,000 years ago, according to a new study that uncovers the consumption habits in what is now Kenya and Tanzania -- and sheds a light on human evolution... After excavating pottery at sites throughout east Africa, team members analyzed organic lipid residues left in the pottery and were able to see evidence of milk, meat and plant processing. "(This is) the first direct evidence we've ever had for milk or plant processing by ancient pastoralist societies in eastern Africa," Grillo said.Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago | Talia Ogliore | April 14, 2020 | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis(that's weird, we all KNOW that lactose intolerance is only absent from the white colonizers!!! /s)
Milk was used for thousands of years apparently.