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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Yang, Y. Dairying transformed Mongolia. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 288–289 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1082-0
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