5,000-year-old milk protein points to importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

By analyzing milk proteins extracted from calcified dental plaque, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and their international partners present the earliest evidence for dairy consumption on the eastern Eurasian Steppe and uncover clues to the origin of mounted dairy pastoralism in Mongolia.