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Re:Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk from Bottles by jdmichal on Thursday September 26, 2019 @09:40AM (#21080778)
Generally correct; however also wrong in this specific instance. The article also clearly limits scope to Europe, specifically modern-day Bavaria. And therefore uses the specific and appropriate terms "Neolithic", "Bronze Age", and "Iron Age". As Wikipedia calls out [0]:

"The terms "Neolithic" and "Bronze Age" are culture-specific and are mostly limited to cultures of the Old World."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_prehistory#H...

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Re:Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk from Bottles by zosterops on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:04AM (#21081525)
To add to that, terms like Bronze age refer to different times in different locations depending on when bronze began being used. It would refer to an earlier time in the near East than it would in Scandinavia(3300 BC vs 1700 BC). It is not as relevant in the Americas as metallurgy didn't even appear to exist in pre-Columbian North America. There was some minor use of bronze in certain South American cultures but it doesn't seem to have been extensive enough to define a time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East#Periodizatio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy_in_pre-Columbian_Am...

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Re:Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk from Bottles by posterboy on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:25AM (#21081789)
There are nails from Vikings found in pre-coloumbian US. Happy columbus day
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