Farmers who settled in England around 6,000 years ago literally milked cattle and other grazing animals for all they were worth. A chemical analysis of broken pots found at 14 ancient British sites confirms archaeological evidence suggesting that early farmers raised livestock for dairy products as well as for meat.
MILKY WAYS. Chemical analyses of this pottery fragment and many others reveal widespread dairying in prehistoric England.
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