Worldwide Beekeeping
Beekeeping => Bee News => Topic started by: efmesch on November 12, 2015, 02:59:28 pm
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Longer than you might think----
http://www.livescience.com/52759-stone-age-people-used-beeswax.html
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I was gonna say shortly before Jack was born.......................... ;D :D
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And I would say you are probably right. :yes: :yes:
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Yes, and i still have the same hives, O:-) I would make you two a good deal on some survivor queens. ;D tec was my mentor. Jack :laugh: :laugh:
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;D ;D ;D
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Thanks ef for the link.
It appears that the next step back from the link is an item in the popular science magazine Nature.
I am very sceptical of the deductions/conclusions. I can accept that the researchers have found traces of beeswax on prehistoric pottery. I am unsure as to whether the pottery was deliberately lined with wax. I can envisage honeycomb or brood comb going into a food preparation or being stored in a pot. There is also the idea of "hooch".
The next step infers "beekeeping". Perhaps this is a step too far. I would imagine that gathering "wild" comb took place for quite a while before keeping bees in some kind of hive.
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I'm guessing actual keeping of bees goes back as far as civilization. In other words as far as known agriculture, probably 10,000 years or better.