Find out how cheese originated. Have you ever wondered about how people started making cheese?Scientists from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom have analyzed 5000 year old pottery pieces that show the oldest traces of cheesemaking. The pottery fragments were found in Poland, and also have traces of beeswax, that may have been used to get the cheese out of the mold. The University of Bristol researchers said: “The specific features of the pots, characterized by the presence of randomly distributed holes, support arguments in favor of the use for cheese making.” The reason behind making cheese from milk is that ancient people were lactose intolerant. Cheese is easier to digest and can be stored or transported more effectively than milk, so it became an advantage to be able to get nutrients from the milk of an animal. The ability to consume dairy products is a fairly recent evolutionary change in humans, and scientists have discovered that it is an example of convergent human evolution, meaning it happened in completely independent populations, created by raising cattle for food. People who could consume dairy products were at an evolutionary advantage and the people with the genes that made them lactose intolerant were not favored in survival and procreation.