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More about Eva Crane for the Newbees out there.

Eva Crane was the director of the International Bee Research Association 
for 35 years, Bee Scientist and beekeeping historian.  In the course of 
her many travels she has obtained first-hand knowledge of traditional and 
modern beekeeping in some sixty countries, and also honey hunting in 
places where it was still practiced. She encouraged museums to collect and 
preserve beekeeping artifacts; honey vessels, ropes, ladders and other 
materials still being used in honey hunting in some parts of Africa.  

The publication of her book The Archeology of Beekeeping, stimulated a 
number of readers to search for possible hives among excavated material, 
and also for relics of traditional beekeeping that still survive.  Dr. 
Crane has encouraged the recording and publication of such finds, and 
since 1985 has been especially interested in rock art related to bees and 
honey hunting.  

Her books include Bees and Beekeeping: The World History of Beekeeping and 
Honey Hunting, Practice and World Resources, and From Where I Sit:  Essays 
on Bees, Beekeeping, and Science (with Mark L. Winston).


Here is a BBC interview with Eva Crane 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2001_31_thu_02.shtml

If anyone can convert this file to the more popular ‘windows media player’ 
please post a link or send me the file.
Thanks!

Joe Waggle 
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles

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