Food in Early Central Asia
Dried sour yogurt balls in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (thanks to Jeff and Becca Zanatta) Central Asian meat and dairy The nomads who lived in Central Asia, like the Scythians, the Mongols and [...]
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Environment of Central Asia
Central Asian steppe What is the steppe? By the time the first Neanderthals reached Central Asia, maybe about 100,000 BC, most of Central Asia was covered by hundreds of miles [...]
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Later Central Asian Food – History of Food
Russian rye bread Beef and yogurt In 1500 AD, most people in Central Asia were still cattle herders, and they ate beef, yogurt, and milk from their cows just they [...]
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Flowering plants – Evolution and Biology
Flowering plants: Lavender flowers smell wonderful! Before there were flowers... For millions of years, the Earth was covered with ferns and pine trees and moss and mushrooms, without any flowers, grass, [...]
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Evolution of Horses – Where do horses come from?
Eohippus - an early kind of horse When mammals first began to grow larger, after the dinosaurs became extinct about 70 million years ago, some of them evolved into the [...]
