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ArticleBody:Humans have loved fine cookware and milk for thousands of years across multiple continents. Now, a high-tech protein analysis of cauldrons used by nomadic people in present day Mongolia during the Bronze Age indicates that the cookware was used to make sausages and ferment milk.
Bruce Worden People lived in rounded white tents called gers. They are easily portable and still used today. The larger and heavier items may have been buried at these occupation sites so that people could return to them without having to bring them along when they traveled. “When they came back to that site the next year their items would be recovered by digging them up,” says Wilkin.
Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan and Bruce Worden “I was extremely excited to see yak milk, as the protein sequences between cows and yak only differ by a single amino acid. So if you don’t recover that specific peptide, you will not be able to differentiate the species,” says Wilkin. Additionally, cow and yak skeletal remains are “almost indistinguishable from each other,” which makes milk proteins an exciting way to determine what animals were present and past human-yak interactions. Proteins vs.
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