[Stones] milking it

[Merryn Dineley]

Although it is possible to seal ceramic pots with butter or animal fats 
and then use the pot for something else. So lipid analysis results do 
not always reflect the pot's use.

merryn

Andy Burnham wrote:
> Cheers Mark - checking the Portal's archives I find this from 27 January 
> 2003
> 
> http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146410859
> 
> To lick and stick and sound like a dick :)
> 
>  From chemical analysis of pottery scientists have discovered that 
> Neolithic man drank milk reports Steve Connor of The Independent.
> 
> Researchers from Bristol University have analysed pottery from more than 
> 950 pottery fragments from 14 archaeological sites, including the stone 
> age forts at Windmill Hill in Wiltshire, and Hambledon Hill in Dorset 
> and detected the chemical signature of dairy products inside a variety 
> of cooking pots used for preparing food.
> 
> Although it was known that ancient Britons kept livestock for meat, it 
> was not clear whether the milk from the ruminant animals – sheep, goats 
> and cows – was also collected for human consumption.
> 
> Dr Copley said he and his colleagues analysed Dr Copley said he and his 
> colleagues analysed more than 950 pottery fragments from 14 
> archaeological sites, including the stone age forts at Windmill Hill in 
> Wiltshire, and Hambledon Hill in Dorset.
> 
> The link to the original Independent story is dead - some justification 
> for nicking (sorry - quoting under fair use ) extracts from newspapers I 
> think!
> Andy
> 
> Mark White wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> This just in on the BBC site 
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6397001.stm
>>
>> An intro lick & stick for those who haven't time to click -
>>
>> A drink of milk was off the menu for Europeans until only a few 
>> thousand years ago, say researchers from London.
>> Analysis of Neolithic remains, in Proceedings of the National Academy 
>> of Sciences, suggests no European adults could digest the drink at 
>> that time.
>>
>> University College London scientists say that the rapid spread of a 
>> gene which lets us reap the benefits of milk shows evolution in action.
>>
>> mw x
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