7,200-year-old traces of cheese found: cheese making a significant step in human culture

Cheese saves the world!

From ages past you rise so gentle breezes

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I once found a hoagie in a coal mine. The coal was Moscovian aged (about 310 My) .Imagine, a 310 million year old hoagie . I didnt even know they had salami 310 million years ago!!

What type of cheese? What animal gave the milk for said cheese? (And who designed the cheese holder?)

It was "animal milk", from cows I think, and the type of cheese was ... well, they just found fatty acid residues, so it would be difficult to compare it with nowadays known types. But one of the authors guessed, it was "like a farmer’s cheese or perhaps like a feta". (Source)

The ceramics are called "rhyta" (singular: rhyton), most probably designed/used just for cheese-making. (Same sources as previously)

We were taught in university, in the late 1960s, that cheese probably derived in the middle east when milk was stored in skin bags made from animal stomachs. As is all too often the case, this was not clearly advertised as the pure speculation that it in fact was. It was also probably an artifact of the mind set that ascribed all cultural development to the middle east because of an underlying Judeo-Christian prejudice. I was very amused when claims were advanced in the 1980s that evidence had been found that copper was smelted and bronze made in the Balkans before it was done in the middle east. This is not to say that the smelting of copper was first done in the Balkans and then "exported" to the middle east. That attitude--cultural diffusion--is another academic artifact that fatuously assumes that things may only ever be discovered once and that thereafter, the use of an artifact or process can only be passed on from the originator.

We have seen thee, Queen of Cheese, lying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze, thy fair form no flies dare seize.
All gaily dressed, soon you’ll go, to the provincial show,
To be admired by many a beau in the city of Toronto.



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Of the youth -- beware of these --
For some of them might rudely squeeze
And bite your cheek; then songs or glees
We could not sing o' Queen of Cheese.

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https://nationalpost.com/life/food/the-new-worlds-oldest-cheese-is-more-than-7000-years-old

I nearly responded to ehBeth with something about Café Keese ...

We here knew already about how to produce cheese at Tacitus' times: Cibi simplices, agrestia poma, recens fera aut lac concretum (The food is simple, wild fruits, fresh game or curdled milk) [Tacitus, Germania, chapter 23]

all that, with an "est" at the end, no?

I copied it without "est". - Its more than 50 years since I had to read Tacitus at school, so you might be correct

This reminds me of that age old question:
Who cut the cheese?

There was a very popular song in the 1920's in Germany ...

Th rule for the English language is add and 's' or 'es'.

singular rhyton - plural rhytons

Sweet cheeses.

No Whey!
That's not Gouda.

I hear it was Cheezum Whizzy