Earliest evidence for cheese making in the sixth millennium bc in northern Europe

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7433, 2013, Pages 522-525

  Salque, Mélanie ^a   Bogucki, Peter I ^b   Pyzel, Joanna ^c   Sobkowiak Tabaka, Iwona ^d   Grygiel, Ryszard ^e   Szmyt, Marzena ^f   Evershed, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e Muzeum Archeologiczno Etnologiczne   (Poland)

^f Pozna Archaeological Museum   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT; LACTOSE;

FATTY ACID; MILK; NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC; TYPOLOGY;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CHEESEMAKING; DAIRY PRODUCT; DENMARK; EUROPE; MILK PRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ALUMINUM SILICATES; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; CHEESE; DAIRYING; EUROPE; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LACTOSE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; LIPIDS; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

ANATOLIA; EUROPE; TURKEY;

EID: 84872921649     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11698     Document Type: Review

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