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Re:Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk from Bottles by jdmichal on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:33PM (#21085223)
There's also the content analysis that they definitely held milk. And Bronze Age is when Europeans would have just been developing lactose persistence:

"A genome-wide scan for selection using DNA gathered from 230 ancient West Eurasians who lived between 6500 and 300 BCE found that the earliest appearance of the allele responsible for lactase persistence occurred in an individual who lived in central Europe between 2450 and 2140 BCE."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence#Evolutiona...

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Re:Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk from Bottles by ineedasername on Friday September 27, 2019 @09:22AM (#21091641)
Yes, but I'm not convinced milk was only used for babies. Fermented milk beverages like kefir have been around for thousands of year. Also, though probably less likely, is cheese: It's conceivable these could have had a part in that, letting the cream rise and pouring out the rest from the spout.
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