I wonder if they had tiny medieval haircuts?
Posted on 12/09/2024 12:28:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
The trunks and hive are now at the Museum of Beekeeping Culture Credit: Museum of Beekeeping Culture Facebook
Whilst Sweden is anxious to uncover fake honey and have it removed from shelves, Polish scientists have discovered a 1,300 year old beehive.
Medieval Polish beehive is one of the oldest to be discovered anywhere in the world It was found inside the trunk of a tree and is believed to be one of the world’s oldest preserved beehives.
As sawmill operators were getting ready to turn the trunk of an ancient oak tree into boards, they noticed something unusual imbedded within the trunk and actually discovered remains of an apiary containing a preserved honeycomb, remains of bees long deceased and what looked like traces of honey.
According to a spokesperson for the beekeeping association Bractwo Bartne, it was sitting in a hollow cavity but it is assumed that as the area had been completely overgrown, medieval beekeepers had simply forgotten about it.
At some stage, the tree collapsed and fell into a river where it was buried under layers of silt for centuries.
Scientists subjected the remains of the trunk radiocarbon dating which came up with a date of 680AD which they believe coincides with the tree ceasing to grow any further.
Much more research will take place on medieval beehive to see how contents compares to the modern day
Having examined the remains, the National Research Institute of Animal Production has come to the conclusion that the hive was inhabited by central European honeybees and further research is ongoing to see how similar or different the medieval bees may be when compared to similar specimens today.
The oak trunk is now displayed at the Museum of Beekeeping Culture in Augustów, while scientists continue studying the biological material.
Translation....The little ba****** were all over me and I wound up in emergency.
it’s good news. They should do the same thing with humans. Dig up the graves of people from thousands of years ago. We were stronger, smarter and just plain better. We are de-evolving.
Medievil bees practiced fudalism.
There was a monarch...or queen, then serfs, or worker bees, that labored to support the monarch and the hive.
Worker bees did not own property back then either.
In modern times though, bees have moved away from the antiquated feudalism model, and most hives have a democratic republic in some form, although they often will keep a figurehead queen in a nod to tradition and their roots.
I believe this, though in no position to prove it. Among reasons to suspect it, there's the complexity of ancient languages like Sanskrit, compared to numerous modern languages; and the physical vigor of our ancestors, versus generations of ease and indolence; and the world wars, plus the 1918 flu that severely struck the young adults.
Did they find any elves in the trunk?
We are de-evolving.
Are we not men?
We are Devo.
sweet...
If you look at the Neanderthals, we were stockier, had thicker bones and bigger brains. Amazing. Look at kids today- they don’t even know what gender they are. So weak. It might be the soy, the chemicals in the water supply, plastic that emulates estrogen- who knows. We are literally running on fumes. We have gone from wolves to poodles. If we actually could clone people properly, we could use DnA from our ancestors. Get DNA from battlefields because the best of us, the strongest have been pissed away in the endless wars. Unfortunately harvesting sncient DNA is beyond us. Clones always turn out weaker than the original. We used to produce Isaac Newtons, now we produce diddys
It’s the grown “men” with high voices who irritate me the most. Maybe the plastic, maybe the soy, who knows. Seems like only one in a dozen sound like a proper male. :(
What’s the buzz?
Tell me what’s a happenin’?
“We used to produce Isaac Newtons, now we produce diddys”
I wouldn’t call humankind’s 40 year leap from the horse and buggy in 1910 to atomic science in 1950 meaningless or trivial. A big bunch of “Isaacs” were busy at work in that era.
Why should you want to know?
Why are you obsessed with fighting
Times and fates you can’t defy?
If you knew the path we’re riding
You’d understand it less than I.
“Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be. But half the bee has got to be, vis-à-vis its entity – d’you see? But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee when half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury?”
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