{"id":333,"date":"2003-02-04T03:26:59","date_gmt":"2003-02-04T03:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:17","slug":"stone-age-brits-got-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"stone age brits got milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Six thousand years ago, neolithic Brits might have  enjoyed sips of milk with their steaming haunches of meat. Researchers  from England&#8217;s University of Bristol report in the <em>Proceedings of the  National Academy of Sciences<\/em> that they have discovered milk-fat residue  on 6000-year-old pottery fragments. It is the earliest direct evidence  of dairy farming ever found. Until now, it has been difficult to tell  meat fat from milk fat. The breakthrough occurred when the researchers  discovered that milk fats contain different ratios of the stable  isotopes of carbon (carbon-12 and carbon-13) compared to meat fat. While  the chemical analysis definitely proves the existence of dairy fat, the  researchers don&#8217;t yet know how the milk was used. Considering milk&#8217;s  short shelf life, it&#8217;s probable the ancient Britons were making and  eating butter, cheese, or yogurt. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 2\/04\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six thousand years ago, neolithic Brits might have enjoyed sips of milk with their steaming haunches of meat. Researchers from England&#8217;s University of Bristol report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have discovered milk-fat residue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}