Oldest evidence of cheese-making found in shards of vessels
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 01:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
7,000-year-old pottery fragments poked with holes are the oldest direct evidence of cheese-making, scientists conclude.The shards of old pottery are poked with little holes, remnants of vessels that would have looked a lot like colanders. Now scientists have determined that the fragments — more than 7,000 years old — are most likely from ancient cheese-making implements, used for separating curds from whey.