Hunter-gatherers in Africa were dairying as early as first millennium AD

Hunter-gatherers in Africa were dairying as early as first millennium AD

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Washington DC (UPI) May 11, 2020

New chemical analysis of ancient pots has confirmed that groups of hunter-gathers in the highlands of present-day Lesotho, a landlocked nation in southern Africa, were consuming the dairy of domestic animals. as early as the first millennium AD. Previous archaeological surveys have revealed the presence of domestic animal bones at hunter-gatherer sites in Lesotho's Maloti-Drakensberg Mo

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