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Agriculture, Animal Sciences, Dairy Science +6

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Humanities, Archaeology, Chemistry +14

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Humanities, Archaeology, History +17

Direct chemical evidence for widespread dairying in prehistoric Britain

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Agriculture, Archaeology, Biochemistry +14

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Agriculture, History, African History +10