Randy> Actually, there is clear evidence that selective breeding and importation of gentle bee stocks was practiced in the Middle East over 3000 years ago.
PLB> What evidence is that?
Me> Tel Rehov comes to mind
Industrial apiculture in the Jordan valley during Biblical times with Anatolian honeybees
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2010/06/04/1003265107.full.pdf
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