<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Zooarchaeology for Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zooarchaeology for Kids is a book series written by Dr. Linoy Namdar]]></description><link>https://www.zooarchforkids.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:55:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.zooarchforkids.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Did Ancient People Know That Cows Could Give Milk?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It sounds like an obvious question — of course they knew! But the history of dairy is more complicated and more fascinating than most people realize. Why Drinking Milk Was Actually a Big Problem Milk is actually not easy for adult humans to digest. We need a special enzyme called lactase to break down lactose, the sugar in milk. Most adult mammals — including most adult humans throughout most of history — don't produce this enzyme. So drinking milk as an adult would have made early humans...]]></description><link>https://www.zooarchforkids.com/post/did-ancient-people-know-that-cows-could-give-milk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d6b19289f9e676eca1b994</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:51:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e638cb_ac2e488f1bcd4c8c9623faa4572f763e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>nazooarch</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Earthquake That Froze a Goat Herd in Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine walking into an ancient room and finding ten goat skeletons, perfectly preserved, exactly where they fell — over 1,270 years ago. That's exactly what we discovered at Tel Beth Shemesh (East) in Israel during excavations between 2018 and 2020. The Day the Earth Stood Still A massive earthquake struck the region around 749 CE — one of the most destructive seismic events in the history of the Middle East, documented in Hebrew, Muslim, and Christian sources. The earthquake brought down a...]]></description><link>https://www.zooarchforkids.com/post/the-earthquake-that-froze-a-goat-herd-in-time</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d6ade8a51db32c14c0730b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:38:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e638cb_ebe0ac56755d4491b4b5a6a6d55e3f7f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>nazooarch</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Do Ancient Bones Tell Us About What People Ate for Dinner?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what was on the menu 6,000 years ago? No menus survived, no cookbooks, no food diaries — but the bones did. And bones, it turns out, are absolutely full of secrets. What Is Zooarchaeology? This is the world of zooarchaeology: the study of animal remains found at archaeological sites. Zooarchaeology for beginners can sound complicated, but the basic idea is wonderfully simple — by looking at which animal bones are present at a site, how old the animals were when they...]]></description><link>https://www.zooarchforkids.com/post/what-do-ancient-bones-tell-us-about-what-people-ate-for-dinner</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d42749d36a85c300c18725</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:38:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e638cb_a3c2e57db6994de2be07453fc19fad62~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>nazooarch</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>