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Milk Across History Shows Cows and Other Livestock Domestication
The history traces milk from ancient times through nomadic herding to modern science. It notes diverse milking animals including sheep goats water buffalo yak and camel and cites early domestication in Southwest Asia with religious reverence for cows. Cattle dairying spread globally with archaeological finds in Ur and Switzerland and arrival of cows in Jamestown 1611 and New England 1624.
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Gertrude Stein
India
Southwest
Asia
Central Asia
China
Mongolia
South America
Spain
Southwest Asia
Europe
Babylon
Switzerland
Jamestown
Virginia
New England