Prehistoric Beekeeping in Central Europe - a Themed Guided Tour at Zeiteninsel, Germany

Abstract

Over the past few years, beekeeping has been a media focal point. Nevertheless There is a paucity of knowledge surrounding the prehistory of beekeeping outside of the information from the east and south Mediterranean regions. The author is an archaeologist and a beekeeper and commenced this project in 2016, having given presentations and submitted articles to a German beekeeping magazine (Guber 2016) and conducting research of “archaeobeekeeping” within archaeological contexts.

Keywords

• ancient technology
• bee
• archaeological open-air museum
• mesolithic
• neolithic
• chalcolithic
• bronze age
• iron age
• germany