Finland's Love for Milk Dates Back to 2500 BC

The love of milk in Finland can be traced back to 2500 BC owing to high-tech techniques that analysed the residues that were preserved in fragments of ancient pots. The Finns are the world's biggest milk drinkers today but experts had previously been unable to establish whether prehistoric dairy farming was possible in the harsh environment that far north, where there is snow for up to four months a year. Research by the Universities of Bristol and ...