While we are on the subject of animal domestication and the agricultural revolution and urbanization in the Near East, I wanna share with you news that the first domesticated pigs in Europe were introduced from the Middle East by Stone Age farmers, as reported by a new study in PNAS which I think will soon [...]
September 4, 2007
Tel Rehov Reveals the First Beehives in Ancient Near East
Putting aside the bombardment of biblical references this press release has, the findings of one of the first apiaries known dating from the 10th to early 9th centuries B.C.E. found in excavations at Tel Rehov in Israel’s Beth Shean Valley, are pretty important in our understanding of the agricultural revolution and the domestication of animals [...]
