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Dairy and Egg Products

Milk and milk-derived ingredients, per USDA's Dairy and Egg Products group; the atlas carries no standalone egg ingredient entity at this wave. Belongs here: Butter, Cheese, Cream, Milk, Yogurt. Does not belong here: a fermented milk beverage meant to be drunk rather than used as a cooking ingredient, such as Kefir or Lassi, which are drink entities.

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Era of EmergenceSourced to the subject's own account
6500 BCE 1
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1. Dairy Product (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDairy product, History section, seventh millennium BC Anatolia
Quote, Dairy product, History section, seventh millennium BC Anatolia
the earliest evidence of using domesticated cows for dairy production is from the seventh millennium BC, the early Neolithic era, in northwestern Anatolia.
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