Just saw this article on ancient cheesemaking in Pakistan/India.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/cheese-indus-valley-peoples-56234634563/ (https://www.zmescience.com/science/cheese-indus-valley-peoples-56234634563/)
Much technology originating from areas we now call China passed westward through, amongst others, the region of India and Pakistan. We have this from the dating and correlation of archaic objects often found in burial sites around the world.
Talking of which, there are 7,000 year old examples of cheese making equipment recovered from the area now named Poland.
All of this points back to the original herding and domestication of live stock and the eventual emergence of dairy farming and the economies that this process supported.
Cheese-making certainly has a venerable history.