What is it about?
This paper discusses the discovery of a rare artifact that can be interpreted as ceramic beehive at the pre-Columbian site of Nakum located in northeastern Guatemala. The beehive can be dated to the end of the Preclassic period (ca. 100 BC–AD 250/300). We use a broad comparative vantage, drawing on archaeological, epigraphic, and ethnohistorical sources to discuss Mesoamerican beekeeping and its role in both the daily and the ritual lives of the Maya.
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Why is it important?
The importance of this find lies in the fact that beekeeping is an activity that is traced with difficulty in archaeology, especially in Mesoamerica.
Perspectives
We present the discovery of Nakum ceramic beehive in a wider temporal and spatial context and provide new data on Precolumbian beekeeping.
Dr. Jaroslaw Zralka
Jagiellonian University
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This page is a summary of: THE DISCOVERY OF A BEEHIVE AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF APIARIES AMONG THE ANCIENT MAYA, Latin American Antiquity, June 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/laq.2018.21.
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