Andrew Gough's Arcadia. History is rife with lost knowledge and traditions whose meaning has blurred with the passage of time. I believe the ‘Bee’ is one such tradition, and that its symbolism was important to civilizations of all ages. Inexplicably, the Bee is dying and nobody is quite sure why. Legend asserts that when the Bee dies out, man will shortly follow. We will review the implications of the Bee’s apparent demise in due course, however in this - our first instalment, we will examine the genesis of the Bee’s symbolism in the mist of prehistory. Anatomy of a female Honey Bee Thanks to fossilisation, Bees over 100 million years old have been discovered in amber, frozen in time, as if immortalised in their own honey.
"The bee inclos'd, and through the amber shewn, Seems buried in the juice, which was his own. A Bee fossilized in amber over 100 hundred million years old - from Southeast Asia Honey Hunting in Spain – approximately 13,000 BC Bee Goddess, 5000 BC – Neolithic Spain © www.mothergoddess.com. BEES, HONEY AND HEALTH IN ANTIQUITY | Cilliers | Akroterion. The PDF file you selected should load here if your Web browser has a PDF reader plug-in installed (for example, a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader). If you would like more information about how to print, save, and work with PDFs, Highwire Press provides a helpful Frequently Asked Questions about PDFs. Alternatively, you can download the PDF file directly to your computer, from where it can be opened using a PDF reader. To download the PDF, click the Download link above. Fullscreen Fullscreen Off Refbacks There are currently no refbacks.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. The archaeology of beekeeping - Eva Crane. 10_Francis. Beekeeping. Beekeeping in Serbia Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin: apis "bee") is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. A beekeeper (or apiarist) keeps bees in order to collect their honey and other products that the hive produces (including beeswax, propolis, pollen, and royal jelly), to pollinate crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers.
A location where bees are kept is called an apiary or "bee yard". Depictions of humans collecting honey from wild bees date to 15,000 years ago, efforts to domesticate them are shown in Egyptian art around 4,500 years ago. Simple hives and smoke were used and honey was stored in jars, some of which were found in the tombs of pharaohs such as Tutankhamun. It wasn't until the 18th century that European understanding of the colonies and biology of bees allowed the construction of the moveable comb hive so that honey could be harvested without destroying the entire colony. History of beekeeping[edit] Origins[edit]
Maurice Mathis – Vie et Mœurs des Abeilles – Première Partie – Chapitre 1. Chapitre premier Quelques documents sur les abeilles A. — Connaissances anciennes sur les abeilles Avant d’entreprendre la description des méthodes qui peuvent nous donner le moyen de mieux connaître la biologie des abeilles, il nous a paru utile de résumer aussi brièvement que possible les idées que pouvaient avoir les Anciens sur cet Insecte. A côté de faits reconnus exacts par la suite, les Anciens croyaient à des faits merveilleux, inventés de toutes pièces ou dérivant de la mythologie. L’exposé de quelques-unes de leurs idées, nous permettra de mieux comprendre l’homogénéité et l’exactitude des lois biologiques des abeilles, telles qu’elles nous apparaissent à la lumière de la science moderne. L’abeille et le miel étaient bien connus en Egypte. Aujourd’hui pour récolter le miel, les Egyptiens se servent comme ruches de cylindres creux en terre séchée au soleil ; longs environ de 1 m, 20 sur 0 m, 30 de diamètre.
On s’en servait aussi en pharmacie.