Angela
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Direct as in found on remains, in this case from Neolithic Britain. All prior conclusions were based on the presence of dairy residue on pottery, but this proof is in their teeth.
When I think how wrong almost everyone was about this! The perceived wisdom was that steppe people, since they were steppe herders, must have selected for some sort of LP gene and brought it to Europe. Not. Woe to you when you questioned that orthodoxy.
The authors are assuming that it must all have been consumed in the form of cheese or yoghurt, since none of them carried any known LP gene.
Perhaps the possibility should be held out that there's one we don't know about? I can personally attest that despite carrying two copies of the LP gene I suddenly, in my thirties, started having products with dairy consumption. Yes, cheese is better than actually drinking milk, which is now a disaster, but still...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
When I think how wrong almost everyone was about this! The perceived wisdom was that steppe people, since they were steppe herders, must have selected for some sort of LP gene and brought it to Europe. Not. Woe to you when you questioned that orthodoxy.
The authors are assuming that it must all have been consumed in the form of cheese or yoghurt, since none of them carried any known LP gene.
Perhaps the possibility should be held out that there's one we don't know about? I can personally attest that despite carrying two copies of the LP gene I suddenly, in my thirties, started having products with dairy consumption. Yes, cheese is better than actually drinking milk, which is now a disaster, but still...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia