SANTOS, J. O.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1402817835946608; SANTOS, José Ozildo dos.
Resumen:
The so-called modern Beekeeping began to develop from the eighteenth century.
However, the honey consumption is something that goes back to the Upper Paleolithic
period. The cave paintings of Zimbabwe, more precisely the one located in the small
shelter Toghawana Dam, owning nearly 10,000 years are, to date, the earliest record
of man promoted by bee honey collection. In ancient Egypt, about twenty-four
centuries before Christ, the Beekeeping was already a very common activity. Several
representations dated at that time and found in the Temple of the Sun in Abu Gourab
show scenes where men appear promoting the extraction and storage of honey. If
Beekeeping among the Egyptians took shape in the Greek world it was the first
scientific treatises object. Xenophon, Aristotle and Hippocrates devoted long pages to
bees and honey, as a food product and medicine. The Greeks also produced excellent
drinks from honey, presenting it as ‘the nectar of the gods'. In the Arab world, especially
the Beekeeping was relevant in the works produced by Avicenna, whose medical
textbooks have been used in Europe until the eighteenth century. However, it was from
the Roman Empire to the Beekeeping - while economic activity - has to be stimulated
mainly by the need to produce candles from bee wax. Faced with this necessity and
importance given to medicinal honey, beekeeping [with its new management
techniques] expanded by all the kingdoms conquered by the Romans, a fact that
marked the beginning of the call Beekeeping Modern. This work aims to promote an
approach to the historical evolution of Beekeeping in its infancy.