{"id":4413,"date":"2015-11-11T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:10:07","slug":"ancient-farming-bee-haviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/ancient-farming-bee-haviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient farming bee-haviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4414\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-04-05544C_1_Honeybee-History014_low_res-682x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4414\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4414\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-04-05544C_1_Honeybee-History014_low_res-682x1024-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"(Image credit: Credit: Eric Tournere) \" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-04-05544C_1_Honeybee-History014_low_res-682x1024-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-04-05544C_1_Honeybee-History014_low_res-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image credit: Credit: Eric Tournere)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers have found evidence that humans have been gathering bee products, such as honey and honeycomb, for at least 9,000 years. The researchers examined residues preserved on thousands of pottery vessels from across Europe, North Africa, and Asia. The earliest evidence was found in pots from Neolithic sites in Anatolia, where Europe and Asia join, dating back to the seventh millennium BC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/press.nature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2015\/11\/nature15757.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>November 11<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>M\u00e9lanie Roffet-Salque, Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found evidence that humans have been gathering bee products, such as honey and honeycomb, for at least 9,000 years. The researchers examined residues preserved on thousands of pottery vessels from across Europe, North Africa, and Asia. The earliest evidence was found in pots from Neolithic sites in Anatolia, where Europe and Asia join, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[101,174,1851,2375,2464,1647],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-agriculture","tag-animals","tag-anthropology","tag-bees","tag-farming","tag-human-behaviour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-04-05544C_1_Honeybee-History014_low_res-682x1024.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-19b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}