Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes [PDF]
Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Archaeological and archaeogenetic evidence points to the Pontic–Caspian steppe zone between the Caucasus and the Black Sea as the crucible from which the earliest steppe pastoralist societies arose and spread, ultimately influencing populations from ...
Ashley Scott +2 more
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From bowls to pots: The dairying revolution in Northwest Turkey, a view from Barcın Höyük, 6600 to 6000 BCE. [PDF]
PLoS ONEResearch has identified Northwest Turkey as a key region for the development of dairying in the seventh millennium BCE, yet little is known about how this practice began or evolved there.
Hadi Özbal +10 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 The initial movement of herders and livestock into the eastern steppe is of great interest, as this region has long been home to pastoralist groups. Due to a paucity of faunal remains, however, it has been difficult to discern the timing of the adoption ...
Alicia R Ventresca Miller +2 more
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Paleoproteomic evidence reveals dairying supported prehistoric occupation of the highland Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2023 The extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau offer considerable challenges to human survival, demanding novel adaptations. While the role of biological and agricultural adaptations in enabling early human colonization of the plateau has been widely ...
Tang L +22 more
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Alternative visions of “ethical” dairying: changing entanglements with calves, cows and care [PDF]
Agriculture and Human Values, 2022 Few sectors are more ethically contentious than dairy, with debates tending to be polarised between “intensification” and “abolitionist” narratives which often drown out alternative voices operating in-between.
Merisa S. Thompson
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Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions
Nature, 2021 During the Early Bronze Age, populations of the western Eurasian steppe expanded across an immense area of northern Eurasia. Combined archaeological and genetic evidence supports widespread Early Bronze Age population movements out of the Pontic–Caspian ...
Shevan Wilkin +2 more
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Dairying and the evolution and consequences of lactase persistence in humans. [PDF]
Anim Front, 2023 A stable and consistent food source is one of the most important evolutionary challenges facing any species. Mammalian young are typically born incapable of provisioning for themselves, but all mammalian species, through the production of milk, have ...
Stock JT, Wells JCK.
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Dating the emergence of dairying by the first farmers of Central Europe using 14C analysis of fatty acids preserved in pottery vessels. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Significance Calendrical dating for the introduction of new food commodities affords enhanced understanding of major changes in human food procurement. Here, direct dating of milk residues from the Early Neolithic in Central Europe demonstrates the use ...
Casanova E +13 more
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Chemical Analysis of Pottery Demonstrates Prehistoric Origin for High-Altitude Alpine Dairying
PLoS ONE, 2016 The European high Alps are internationally renowned for their dairy produce, which are of huge cultural and economic significance to the region. Although the recent history of alpine dairying has been well studied, virtually nothing is known regarding ...
Francesco Carrer +2 more
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Cows in the city: How consumer demands sustain urban dairying in the IT capital of India [PDF]
Urban Agriculture & Regional Food SystemsSpurred by rising incomes and urbanization, the “nutrition transition” in India has led to many dietary changes, including an increase in per capita milk consumption, which has quadrupled since 1970.
Neda Yousefian +4 more
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