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