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Re:Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t dr... by undersuit on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:14PM (#24394729)
Eurasia focused more on mare's milk and China and other rice dominated agricultures had no room for large concentrations of herds.
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Re:Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t dr... by gruez on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:27PM (#24395491)
> China and other rice dominated agricultures had no room for large concentrations of herds.

Yeah it was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373939

tl;dr: rice was so efficient that there was no point in raising cattle

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