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Dairying transformed Mongolia

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Proteomic analysis of human dental calculus finds evidence that ruminant dairying was accompanied with eastward human migration into Central Mongolia about 5,000 years ago and horse milk consumption was a part of the economic transformation in Mongolia around 1200 bc.

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Fig. 1: The earliest domesticates in Central Asia, Mongolia and China.

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