• Archaeologist Luise Tiemann is experimenting with replicas of prehistoric vessels and tools to find out how Stone Age people made cheese.
  • The experiments take place at the Bajuwarenhof open-air museum in Kirchheim near Munich.
  • Tiemann uses replicas of vessels from the Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages, found in Switzerland, Brandenburg, and Bavaria.
  • Cheese was important for lactose-intolerant Neolithic people because it contains little lactose and allows long-term storage of milk.
  • Laboratory analyses of residues on pottery shards indicate that milk was processed in them.

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