Chemical analysis of pottery reveals first dairying in Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium BC
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 12:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk nearly 7,000 years ago is described in research by an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, UK, published today in Nature.