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This was sarcasm, but the article lists this as a Neolithic invention with domesticated animals. Meaning it actually fits perfectly within the Paleo diet story.

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To add to your comment in the title "Prehistoric" , "before history", means before the advent of writing, i.e. 5 000 years or so; history originally referring to times that have written records.

"History" itself now refers to the entire Universe timeline before the present. But prehistory cannot mean that, because that would be pre-BigBang.

So the title "Prehistoric babies Drank Animal Milk from Bottles" could refer to 1491 born Guaraní babies drinking Llama's milk from ceramic bottles and a nipple made from the rubber tree. Cool, but of no relevance to a paleo-diet.

Generally correct; however also wrong in this specific instance. The article also clearly limits scope to Europe, specifically modern-day Bavaria. And therefore uses the specific and appropriate terms "Neolithic", "Bronze Age", and "Iron Age". As Wikipedia calls out [0]:

"The terms "Neolithic" and "Bronze Age" are culture-specific and are mostly limited to cultures of the Old World."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_prehistory#H...

To add to that, terms like Bronze age refer to different times in different locations depending on when bronze began being used. It would refer to an earlier time in the near East than it would in Scandinavia(3300 BC vs 1700 BC). It is not as relevant in the Americas as metallurgy didn't even appear to exist in pre-Columbian North America. There was some minor use of bronze in certain South American cultures but it doesn't seem to have been extensive enough to define a time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East#Periodizatio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy_in_pre-Columbian_Am...

There are nails from Vikings found in pre-coloumbian US. Happy columbus day

Isn't that 1491 example making for a useless definition? I'm pretty sure pre-historic is something unknown. Celts have been written about by Greeks and Romans. Celts left artifacts, even ones inscribed with images, though no texts as far as I'm aware. It's not precisely prehistoric, nor precisely not. The importance of writing in the definition would be, if it came along with the spread of "civilisation", but it's a gradual thing. So I equate pre-historic with neo-lithic to pastoral lifestyle. But really, I have to click the link to find out whether its a sensationalized title or not.

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