good thing he was in europe with their health care system to take
care of him.

Oh, my goodness, this is so cool!

What did he do about dairy?????

Milk is horrible stuff.

What's fascinating is the Lyme disease. That explains a lot about his tats, they were therapeutic, likely, done to reduce pain. It also explains why he was carrying a medicine packet of herbs and mushrooms.

The more I read about the poor bastard, the sorrier I feel for him.

The tomb paintings had them sniffing that lotus because it was a painkiller.

As it does in some European and other populations. My DH discoverd at the age of 58 or so that it doesn't hang on forever, though, and so gave up milk.

or me.

We didn't have a source of milk until we invented farming and herding, and domesticated animals. Even then, milk was only a major dietary component in Northern Europe.

It should also be noted that pre-refrigeration, we had to process dairy into something else to keep it from spoiling. Usually cheese. And these processing steps could remove most of the lactose, resulting in food that lactose-intolerant people could eat.

Didn't know the cheese process dumped lactose. Just thought anybody up in the Alps was there with herds and flocks.

The process to make, say, Cheddar or Mozzarella doesn't remove all of the lactose for example.