Crying over spilt milk: an evaluation of recent models, methods, and techniques on the origins of milking during the Neolithic of the Old World

Beginning in the 1960s, there was growing dissatisfaction with traditional models of animal domestication that proposed that the earliest stock animals were domesticated for all of their current products (milk, meat, etc.). Soon afterwards, Sándor Bökönyi introduced the concept that many domestic stock animals (sheep, goat, cattle, horses, camels, etc.) produce two types of products (primary and secondary) and that they were initially domesticated for their primary products (meat, hide, and bone) (Bökönyi 1974). He proposed that secondary products (milk, wool, and traction) appeared much later (e.g. in the Bronze Age of Europe). Subsequently, Andrew Sherratt drew upon this concept