We all have to think of ‘who milked the first milk?’ The question has come. In this content, we will try to get as much information as possible from the sources we researched and try to explain to you in an understandable way how the idea of milking came about.
Sometimes some questions come to our minds and we can never find the answers. For example, to get honey from bees to dive into their hives Who thought first? Or ride on horses Who was the first to dare such a bold action?
In this article, we will seek the answer to one of these questions: Who milked the first cow? Who discovered that the first animal milk was drinkable? How did he go back and explain to his people what he had done after squeezing the animal’s udder and pouring the milk into a bucket? Let’s take a closer look at this case.
When was the first milk expressed?
To tell about this event, we first need to talk a little bit about archeology. The first milking process was probably the invention of the farmers. A hunter-gatherer’s large, overprotective baby to the wild cow It was not possible to get close enough. For this reason, first milking is only after settling in It is believed that it was the farmers who discovered it because it could happen.
The first expressed milk in history, BC 8000 years ago The lipid residues of the milk fats in the existing potsherds were determined by analyzing them. The strongest evidence of first milking has been found in cattle-rich northwestern Anatolian lands, which has led leading researchers to The first milked animals were probably cattle. made him think.
Of course, sheep may have been milked as well, but they are less physiologically adapted than cows to be abundant suppliers of milk. As people today are most familiar with cow’s milk in the dairy industry, this article mainly focuses on we will focus on cattle. So what was going through the minds of the first people who decided to milk their animals?
What was going through the mind of the one who milked the first cow?
First, people in early human societies closely studied mammals and their offspring. The relationship between a mammal’s mammary glands and its offspring would not have come as a surprise to early farmers, for in the same way people fed their young. Of course what comes out of the human breast what was known.
Then these early farmers normally their meat to eat they began to look at the herd of early domestic cattle, sheep or goats from another window. As the animals’ birth season approached, the farmer moved the pregnant females from the large pasture to a smaller farm area and placed them closer to the human population. This way both mothers and their newborn babies will be better protected from predators and the farmer can assist with difficult births.
a newborn calf almost immediately starts sucking on its mother. While the calf was suckling and the cow was suckling, the farmer also began to examine. He linked people’s suckling of their children with animals’ feeding of their young. He realized that a cow’s udder was larger than a human’s, and thought it was drinkable. squeezing the breast into a container he attempted. The hardest part here was getting close enough to the animal and gaining the cow’s confidence in herself.
Of course, we could have put a ‘probably’ phrase at the beginning of everything we explained and tried to explain under this subheading, but this would disrupt the flow a bit. Assume it anyway, because you’ll never really fully expect people to express milk for the first time. We don’t know 100% how he reasoned.. We can only base ourselves on the ‘educated guesses’ of such historians and archaeologists.
In fact, there were some evolutionary and technological hurdles that humans and cattle had to overcome before milk and dairy products became widely and intensively used by human societies; these are the early limitations of the lactation reflex in cattle and, of course, in humans. He was lactose intolerant. Later, we will talk about when people thought to purify milk by boiling it.
To summarize:
We can say that those who thought to milk the first milk were the first farmers in settled life (again with ‘high probability’ at the beginning). They made an analogy by seeing people breastfeed, and they thought they could extract the milk from a larger breast to support their people. Thus, the first milk was expressed. What are you thinking? Please do not forget to share your thoughts with us in the comments.
Source :
https://ifeelitinmybones.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/the-first-milking-what-were-they-thinking/