A brief correction to the author’s previous article, “Sweetness Out of Chaos: The Archaeology of Early Beekeeping in the Near East and Aegean,” JAEI 40: 44–93. correction; bees; beekeeping
Sweetness Out of Chaos: The Archaeology of Early Beekeeping in the Near East and Aegean
The honeybee originally migrated to the Levant and northeast Africa sometime during the early Pleistocene (300,000 BP) from her ancestral home in southeast Asia. The evolved honeybee is identified as Apis mellifera. Thanks to the pioneering studies of Eva Crane, there has been an increased interest in the role of bees and beekeeping and a…