dairy products

[eupraxia]

I'm asking here because its more of a history question.

When did people first start to make cheese and butter.

[incitatus]

there isnt an easy answer to this, as it happened so far back its difficult to say when.  probably when farming first took off around the end of the last ice age.  domestic animals were certainlty kept back then.

[Octavius]

Archaeologists have discovered that as far back as 6000 BC cheese had been made from cow's and goat's milk and stored in tall jars.  Egyptian tomb murals of 2000 BC show butter and cheese being made, and other murals which show milk being stored in skin bags suspended from poles demonstrate a knowledge of dairy husbandry at that time.

More cheesy history & info here: http://www.ebs.hw.ac.uk/SDA/cheese1.html

[eupraxia]

Thank you for those answers. I realy didn't think it went that far back.

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