>Paul Getty wrote:
>> >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.
>>
>> 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.).
>
>Actually, I meant that primitive peoples might have consumed whatever
>milk was in the animal when it was killed.
>
>Toby

A longtime European instincto reportedly tried precisely that and found
that the milk in the teat was not stored inside a "bladder" but in tiny
sacs and a branching system which made it hard even to extract a few drops.

Cheers,
Kirt


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