The World History of Beekeeping and Honey HuntingRoutledge, 1999 M10 13 - 720 pages First published in 2000. This comprehensive book represents the first attempt to write a world history of people's use of social bees: how bees' nests were initially hunted for their honey and wax and, later, how the bees were kept in purpose-made hives. Evidence survives from early times in the form of artefacts, pictures and written records, and also human traditions of dealing with bees. Since 1949 the author has had opportunities to travel in over sixty countries, and to see traditional and modern hive beekeeping and also honey collection from nests. She learned much that helped her to piece together some of the long history in the different continents. |
Contents
Honey and Bee Hunting with Examples in the Mediterranean Region and Middle East | |
Honey Hunting in Africa South of the Sahara | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping with Honey Bees in the Americas and Oceania | |
History of Apiaries | |
PART VI | |
History of Controlling Bees with Smoke and Other Substances | |
History of Migratory Beekeeping | |
Transport and Spread of Honey Bees around the World | |
History of Observation Hives | |
Beekeeping Using Improved Traditional FixedComb Hives | |
Honey Hunting in TemperateZone Europe | |
Honey Hunting in Asia East of Persia | |
Stingless Bees | |
Introduced Honey Bees | |
Bumble Bees HoneyStoring Wasps and Honey Ants | |
General Features and Apis mellifera Nests | |
Ownership and Rights of Using Nests and Nest Sites in Asia East of Persia | |
Tending and Beekeeping | |
Ownership and Tending | |
Tending and Beekeeping | |
Originations of Hive Beekeeping and Its Early Development in Egypt | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping to the East South and West of the Mediterranean | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping in Mediterranean Islands | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping in Ancient Greece | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping in the Roman World | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping in Europe I e South | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping in Europe II e Northern Forest Zone | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping in Europe HI West of the Forest Zone | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping in Africa South of the Sahara | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping in Asia East of Persia | |
Traditional Hive Beekeeping with Stingless Bees | |
Traditional MovableComb Hives with TopBars | |
Rational Improvements in Hives 16491851 | |
Impact of Langstroths MovableFrame Hive on World Beekeeping | |
History of Beekeepers Associations and Beekeeping Journals | |
Inventions and Advances that made MovableFrame Beekeeping more Productive | |
History of Rearing eens and Bees for Beekeeping | |
History of the Use of Bees for Crop Pollination | |
History of the Treatment of Honey and Beeswax and their Trade | |
History of the Uses of Honey | |
History of Drinks Made by the Fermentation of Honey | |
History of the Uses of Beeswax | |
History of the Use of Bees as Stinging Insects | |
History of Other Products from Bees | |
e Growth of Knowledge about Honey Bees and their Products | |
History of Gender Roles | |
Bees and Bee Products in World Religions | |
References to bees beekeeping honey and beeswax from 2000 BC to AD 1600 | |
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