>Regarding this last point... why couldn't primitive hunter/gatherers
>have occasional access to milk? They're killing and eating large
>mammals, and are apparently selecting the choicest portions, based in
>part on fatty taste. Surely some (maybe even about half) of the mammals
>killed were female, and some would have been carrying milk.
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>Toby
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That's true. Of course it would have been hell trying to get that milk
from a wild animal! But there must have been some experience with milking
these animals before domestication came about or else they wouldn't have
domesticated them for milking (Well, they may have domesticated them for
some other purpose first, then stared milking them.).
Paul
Paul Getty
Morehead City, NC
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