ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I SETTING THE SCENE
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Part II OPPORTUNISTIC HONEY HUNTING BY MAN
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Part III HISTORY OF COLLECTING HONEY FROM OWNED OR TENDED NESTS
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Part IV HONEY BEES THAT NEST IN THE OPEN: TENDING AND BEEKEEPING
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Part V HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL BEEKEEPING USING FIXED-COMB HIVES
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Part VI HISTORY OF PRACTICES IN BOTH TRADITIONAL AND MOVABLE-FRAME BEEKEEPING
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Part VII DEVELOPMENT OF BEEKEEPING USING MORE ADVANCED HIVES
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Part VIII DEVELOPMENT OF BEEKEEPING USING MOVABLE-FRAME HIVES
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Part IX HISTORY OF BEE PRODUCTS
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Part X BEES IN THE HUMAN MIND