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Our love for honey dates back to Stone Age
Humans realised the usefulness of honeybees as far back as the Stone Age, says new research that found evidence of early farmers exploiting beehive products at least 8,500 years ago.
London: Humans realised the usefulness of honeybees as far back as the Stone Age, says new research that found evidence of early farmers exploiting beehive products at least 8,500 years ago.
The study involved large scale investigation of sites across Europe, the Near East and Northern Africa. The researchers gathered evidence of preserved beeswax in pottery vessels from an archaeological site in Turkey, dating to the seventh millennium BC -- the oldest evidence yet for the use of bee products by Neolithic farmers.
This study gathered evidence for the presence of beeswax in the pottery vessels of the farmers by investigating chemical components trapped in the clay fabric of more than 6,000 potsherds from over 150 archaeological sites.
The distinctive chemical 'fingerprint' of beeswax was detected at multiple Neolithic sites across Europe indicating just how widespread the association between humans and honeybees was in prehistoric times.
