New research led by Petra and Xinyi shows that meat and dairy played a more significant role in human diets in Bronze Age China than previously thought. The analysis also suggests that farmers and herders tended to sheep and goats differently than they did their cows in the eastern Hexi Corridor — keeping cows closer to home and feeding them the byproducts of millet crops that farmers were growing for their own consumption.
The study published in Scientific Reports yesterday is the result of international collaborations coauthored by Petra, Rachel and Xinyi among colleagues from the US, UK and China. Find more details from the news story in The Source:
