Milk drinking

Windmill Hill 4

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Rhiannon Jan 28, 2003 10:05:36

Just a quick gripe about how the Neolithic is perceived by the media / the public in general. It was only a few thousand years ago, for goodness sake. Anyone would think we were apes by the title in New Scientist: "Cavemen's taste for milk revealed".

Anyway the article's quite interesting - new evidence for the use of milk, butter and cheese in British Neolithic society

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=373328

Telepathine Jan 28, 2003 14:46:42

Replying to Rhiannon

Inna related stylee remember seeing this a while ago too. Ahhh, you Scots are not as tough as you'd have us believe ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1024888.stm

Know what you mean about the daft way the media portrays prehistory. It's not surprising really as most peoples 'introduction' to it's delights are through ropey documentary type pap like History Hunters or dodgy theory's by the likes of Graham Hancock.

Merrick Jan 29, 2003 02:38:32

Replying to Rhiannon

Really interesting. So many sacred sites have cow-related folklore (a 'blameless white cow' who gave milk to all at the stones, or Silbury being built as a pot of milk was boiled).

Loads of these specifically refer to white cows, too. There are still 40 or so descendants of the original white cattle that roamed these islands, kept on a massive estate in Northumbria. They're so beautiful that they're my desktop photo.

http://www.whitepark.org.uk/chillingham.htm

Pete G Jan 29, 2003 03:27:31

Replying to Rhiannon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2702123.stm

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