Earliest known evidence of cheese making was found in Croatia dated to 7200 BCE. Residues from sherds of the vessels, known as rhyta, and other pottery excavated from sites of two Neolithic villages on the Dalmatian coast, not far from ﾊibenik, Croatia revealed triglycerides– which exhibit different molecular structures depending on whether they originate from plants, animals, or fungi, and which split into different fatty acids based on how foods are processed. In addition to the traces of cheese in the rhyta pottery, Magill’s group found that fatty acids associated with milk were most common in a pottery type known as figulina.