Lactose Intolerants Beware! The Zooarchaeology of Dairy - Ep 61

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In this episode we discuss all things dairy. Tune in to learn more about how several archaeology sub-disciplines come together to provide evidence for dairy production and consumption in the past. Also some interesting bog butter theories.

Transcripts

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• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• Albarella, U. (1997). Size, power, wool and veal: zooarchaeological evidence for late medieval innovations. Environment and subsistence in medieval Europe, 9, 19-31.

• Bieleman, J. (2005). Technological innovation in Dutch cattle breeding and dairy farming, 1850–2000. The Agricultural History Review, 229-250.

• Bleasdale, M. et al. (2021). Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa. Nature communications, 12(1), 632.

• Charlton, S. et al. (2019). New insights into Neolithic milk consumption through proteomic analysis of dental calculus. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11, 6183-6196.

• Cramp, L. J. et al. (2014). Neolithic dairy farming at the extreme of agriculture in northern Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1791), 20140819.

• Curry, A. (2013). The milk revolution. Nature, 500(7460), 20.

• Greenfield, H. J. (2010). The Secondary Products Revolution: the past, the present and the future. World Archaeology, 42(1), 29-54.

• Hirst, K.K. (2019) Dairy Farming - the Ancient History of Producing Milk. Thought Co.

• Holmes, M. et al. (2021). Close Companions? A Zooarchaeological Study of the Human–Cattle Relationship in Medieval England. Animals, 11(4), 1174.

• Mattiangeli, V. et al. (2020). Genomic analysis of Irish bog butter. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 31, 102368.

• Salque, M. et al. (2013). Earliest evidence for cheese making in the sixth millennium BC in northern Europe. Nature, 493(7433), 522-525.

• Ventresca Miller et al. (2023). Permafrost preservation reveals proteomic evidence for yak milk consumption in the 13th century. Communications biology, 6(1), 351.

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

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