Rural craft
Jun 17, 2020
3 minutes
Lindsay Waddell
It would seem that man — and woman — has always had a sweet tooth. Well, for a very long time anyway. Depictions from 10,000 years ago in Africa show humans harvesting honey and that early record of interaction with the genus Apis simply follows along our path to today.
It is sobering to think that man was ‘keeping’ bees in pottery hives 9,000 years ago. What they did then seems rather harsh in terms
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