On 02/23/2014 11:59 PM, Greg Goss wrote:
> Winston_Smith <
not_...@bogus.net> wrote:
>
>> Wine skin. All sorts of animal parts were used as water/wine/milk/beer
>> carriers. Might be where fermentation was discovered. Calf's stomach
>> has some rennet. Use it to carry milk and get cheese. Camelbak only
>> invented the synthetic bladder.
>
> I don't think so. They've discovered remnants of cheesemaking from
> before the genes for lactose tolerance developed.
The Wikipedia article on cheesemaking gives the date for the oldest
archaeological evidence of cheesemaking as 5,500 BCE, while the
Wikipedia article on lactose persistence says that selective pressure
for lactose persistence goes back 5,000 to 10,000 years (citations from
relevant source are provided in those articles). That allows for
thousands of years during which someone with lactose persistence could
have been the one who discovered cheesemaking. Does one or the other of
those article require editing?
--
James Kuyper