Is Haplogroup I-M170 a white haplogroup

[Kamal900]

I'm pretty sure farmers had domesticated cows although during the later periods of the Neolithic, they turned milk into yogurt iirc in a process that would allow them to digest dairy

Those farmers, man


I love Labneh AKA "Greek" yogurt..even though Greeks have nothing to do with it:

[Kelmendasi]

But these people were lactose intolerant, so, why would they keep cows and drink milk at all?

The pottery found in Neolithic sites near the sea of Marmara were found to have a high level of milk fat, they processed milk into cheese and other products, it would also breakdown the lactose in the dairy so they could digest it. Iirc the farmers that advanced into South-eastern Europe had developed lactose tolerance, possibly due to contact with the Yamnaya or other steppe people

[Kelmendasi]

But firstly they have to drink milk. They didn;t think: oh, there are cows, lets keep them and make youghurt - maybe we would be able to digest it!

They probably began to develop yogurt and cheese through basically something like trial and error or coincidence/accident, for example they could've realized that when they drink actual milk they would have digestion problems but when they consumed processed milk they wouldn't and thus they realized that yogurt was something they could eat without having any problems.

[Ayman Vasconic]

had developed lactose tolerance, possibly due to contact with the Yamnaya or other steppe people

They didn't developed as it is not an invention. They just mix with some stepp people. It is not deasise to be infected becasue of contact or touching other people, neither contact is not a developing.

[Kelmendasi]

They didn't developed as it is not an invention. They just mix with some stepp people. It is not infected but contact or touching other people, neither contact is not a developing.

Yh that's what I mean, develop was a wrong word to use I guess.

[Dick]

Rare photo of a brown/blackish I-man assimilated by Farmerians, before the IE arrival:

Yeah. He looks like my dad.