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Earliest Evidence for Cheese Making in the Sixth Millennium BC in Northern Europe (Nature)

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A 2012 Nature study by Melanie Salque and colleagues identifying milk fat residues in perforated pottery sieves from the Kuyavia region of Poland, dated to roughly 5500 to 5000 BCE, the earliest direct archaeological evidence of cheesemaking.

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Nature
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https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11698
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  • Food Traditions, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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