'World's earliest evidence of dairy consumption found'

Researchers claim to have found the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption anywhere in the world, in the teeth of 6,000-year-old British farmers. The team, led by archaeologists at the University of York in the UK, identified a milk protein called beta lactoglobulin (BLG) entombed in the mineralised dental plaque of seven individuals who lived in the Neolithic period.

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