Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7212, 2008, Pages 528-531

  Evershed, Richard P ^a   Payne, Sebastian ^b   Sherratt, Andrew G ^c   Copley, Mark S ^a   Coolidge, Jennifer ^d   Urem Kotsu, Duska ^e   Kotsakis, Kostas ^e   Özdoǧan, Mehmet ^f   Özdoǧan, Aslý E ^g   Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier ^h   Akkermans, Peter M M G ^h   Bailey, Douglass ⁱ   Andeescu, Radian Romus ^j   Campbell, Stuart ^k   Farid, Shahina ^l   Hodder, Ian ^m   Yalman, Nurcan ⁿ   Özbaşaran, Mihriban ^f   Biçakci, Erhan ^f   Garfinkel, Yossef ⁿ   Levy, Thomas ^o   Burton, Margie M ^o   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ENGLISH HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^f ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j Romanian National Museum of History   (Romania)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CATTLE; DOMESTICATION; FATTY ACID; MILK PRODUCTION; WOOL;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEESE; DAIRY PRODUCT; EUROPE; HERD; MILK; MILK PRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 52949152374     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07180     Document Type: Article

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