Making Milk: Mongolia’s Unique Role in Dairy’s History

Lecture by Christina Warinner, Professor of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Milk is both ancient and enigmatic. First transformed into dairy products over 9,000 years ago in the Near East, its production required the domestication of not only animals, but also microorganisms. Dairy technologies spread across Europe, Africa, and Asia, reaching as far as Mongolia 5,000 years ago. Today, dairy product...