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Peternakan Prasejarah
......Finlandia...... susu...... telah
ditelusuri kembali SM 2500, berkat
berteknologi tinggi teknik untuk menganalisis residu yang diawetkan dalam
fragmen pot kuno .
Prehistoric dairy farming at the extremes
Date:
July 29,
2014
Source:
University of Bristol
Summary:
Finland's love of milk has been traced back to 2500
BC, thanks to high-tech techniques to analyze residues preserved in fragments
of ancient pots.
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Finland's love of milk has been traced back to 2500 BC
thanks to high-tech techniques to analyse residues preserved in fragments of
ancient pots.
The Finns
are the world's biggest milk drinkers today but experts had previously been
unable to establish whether prehistoric dairy farming was possible in the harsh
environment that far north, where there is snow for up to four months a year.
Research by
the Universities of Bristol and Helsinki, published July 30 in Proceedings
of the Royal Society B, is the first of its kind to identify that dairying
took place at this latitude -- 60 degrees north of the equator.
This is
equally as far north as Canada's Northwestern territories, Anchorage in Alaska,
Southern Greenland and near Yakutsk in Siberia.
Researchers
used a series of techniques, not just to analyse the ancient pots, but also to
look at modern-day Finnish peoples' ability to digest milk into adulthood.
By comparing
the residues found in the walls of cooking pots from two separate eras and cultures,
dating to circa 3900 BC to 3300 BC and circa 2500 BC, it was evident that the
more recent pottery fragments showed evidence of milk fats.
This
coincided with the transition from a culture of hunting and fishing -- relying
mainly on marine foods -- to the arrival of 'Corded Ware' settlements which we
now know saw the introduction of animal domestication.
Lead author
Dr Lucy Cramp, from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Bristol
University, said: "This is remarkable evidence which proves that four and
a half thousand years ago, Stone Age people must have been foddering and
sheltering domesticated animals over harsh winters, in conditions that even
nowadays we would find challenging."
The results
also drew a connection between the 'Corded Ware' farming settlers -- who were
likely to have been genetically different to the hunting and fishing
communities -- and modern day Finns.
Fellow
researcher Dr Volker Heyd added: "Our results show a clear link between an
incoming pre-historic population, milk drinking and the ability to digest milk
in adulthood still visible in the genetic distribution of modern Finland, which
remains one of the highest consumers of dairy products in the world."
Professor
Richard Evershed, from the School of Chemistry said: "It never ceases to
amaze me that these sensitive chemical signatures of changing human life
survive in the archaeological record for thousands of years. And it leaves one
pondering what was motivating the people to move into these challenging regions?"
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Journal
Reference:
- Lucy J E Cramp, Richard P Evershed, Mika Lavento, Petri Halinen, Kristiina Mannermaa, Markku Oinonen, Johannes Kettunen, Markus Perola, Päivi Onkamo and Volker Heyd. Neolithic dairy farming at the extreme of agriculture in northern Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, July 30, 2014;