Chemical Analysis of Pottery Demonstrates Prehistoric Origin for High-Altitude Alpine Dairying

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Swiss cheese now goes back all the way to the Iron Age.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0151442

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Swiss cheese now goes back all the way to the Iron Age.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0151442

This is an excellent article and wonderful work by NordicSkogsra.

With cheese production in what they describe as a marginal area, one has to wonder if it was also in marginal areas, areas hard for humans to live and get enough calories, that the ability to digest lactose as adults first arose.