Re:Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t dr...
by nkurz on Sunday September 06, 2020 @06:59PM
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You might be thinking of a different animal. An ox isn't a good choice as an milking animal, as it typically is a castrated male bovine. If female, it would at least produce milk, but then it would just be a cow used for plowing, and would have the same milk as a dairy cow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox. Maybe you mean a water buffalo?
Re:Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t dr...
by AlotOfReading on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:58PM
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Lactose is present in all mammal milks to some degree and thus lactase persistence can have some benefits regardless of the specific animal the milk comes from.
Cattle are not always found in other places.