Earliest direct evidence of milk consumption

[Radu Almasanu]

This is quite interesting thing, however, upon this discovery were there humans who died due their intolerance to lactose.

It says in the article the majority of Europeans at that time had a gene allowing them to continue consumption of milk into adulthood, it also talks about how previous studies of the genetics of the same kind of Europeans lacked this mutation, so it might be specific to that area then the continent.