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Hi bee-lovers !
> In Roya Valley, south-east France, near Italy, there are old walls
> surrounding beehives built in past centuries, called "naijou"
pronounced "ni-e-joo"
> near Tende or "Ca` d'arbine'" (= bee's house) near la Brigue.
> We suppose they were built to defend the beehives from animals. <<
> Who knows of archive papers explaining against what animals they were
> built?
Definitely, it was against (1) brown bears and (2) human!
Bears and Beekeepers : the more than thousand years fight !
> For this type of question, you can refer to Eva Crane's excellent
> 1983 book, THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BEEKEEPING (Cornell Univ. Press,
> Ithaca, NY).
Adrian is right ! There is a lot of informations in this book of Eva
Crane.
BTW: last Aug. 27th and 28th, she just participated in a workshop
about this subject : "the bees dwelling" at "Tende". Robert Chevet
reported this in some articles (in french of course) in the beekeeping
journal "Revue Francaise d'Apiculture"
issue 545 (Nov.1994) pp475-477, L'habitat des abeilles : about the workshop
issue 546 (Dec.1994) pp541-545, Batir pour les abeilles : enclosures in
Morocco and Estramadure (Spain) with some color pictures
issues 547-551 (Jan-May 1995) more on the subject ...
(addr of the Revue Francaise d'Apiculture :
UNAF rue des Tournelles 26 ph: +33.1.48.87.47.15
F-75004-PARIS (France) fx: +33.1.48.87.76.44)
Hope this helps !
Cheers
Jean-Marie Van Dyck <[log in to unmask]>
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