The History of Milk

The discovery that you could apply heat to clay and turn it into pottery happened at about 6,500 BCE in the western half of what is turkey today. We have a lot of archaeological evidence for people using ceramic containers with perforations in them to separate curds in way. People would have quickly figured out since they didn't have refrigeration that that milk sitting out was going to coagulate. And so once we had all those things together at the same place, at the same time, people were able to develop cheese.