"The Swiss Have Made Cheese Since the Iron Age" Topic
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Tango01 | 29 Apr 2016 10:44 p.m. PST |
"When it comes to our ancestors' diets, most might assume that humans living in prehistoric times tended toward munching on meat and foraged vegetables. However, archaeologists have found evidence that some Iron Age people living in the Swiss Alps may have had more refined tastes. An analysis of chemical residue found on pottery shards in several sites across the mountain range suggests that some of these prehistoric people made and ate cheese…" See more here link Amicalement Armand |
Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 29 Apr 2016 11:46 p.m. PST |
and they still can't make nice cheese…. |
RavenscraftCybernetics | 30 Apr 2016 8:19 a.m. PST |
there is a hell of a lot of time between the iron age and pre-history. comparing the two eras as equals is a tad childish. |
Andrew Walters | 02 May 2016 7:56 a.m. PST |
I thought most prehistoric people who had milk animals made cheese. It's not one of those things that always gets invented because A) you almost inevitably discover it by accident, and B) it solves one of the key problems of the pre-refrigeration era – food spoilage. Cheese, fish sauce, pickling, drying, etc, one of my professors called this "portable, potable protein." |
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