[科学美国人60秒] SSS 2015-11-12(在线收听) |
You have bees to think every time you drizzle some honey into your tea. And the human-honey bee relationships is long standing. of honey bees in ancient Egympt. Record has been found that stone age bee harvest.
But exactly when early farmers began to exploit bees has been unclear.
These famers exploited the bees for more than honey, researchers show also show they also exploit the bees wax for cosmetics, fuel, medicine and to perform rituals.
Bees wax contains complex facts that leave a recognizable residues on pottery and other archeological artifacts. And scientist have now used that bees wax residue to analyze what they determine to be the earliest known human-and-bee association dating back some nine thousand years. The researchers survey Europe, the and north Africa.
They found that bees wax or pottery vessels from in or near modern-day turkey.They also discovered that the first evidence of bees wax at in north Africa. And the lack of wax residues in Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavian Peninsula let them take include that those locations were above what must have been more than limits for honey bees. The study is in the journal Nature.
The researcher say that the bees wax residues at these human occupied sites may be very beginning of may be at the with thousands of years of sweet results for us all. |
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