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And the human-honey bee relationships is long standing².      of honey bees  in ancient Egympt. Record has been found that    stone age bee harvest.

But exactly when early farmers began to exploit bees has been unclear.

These famers exploited the bees for more than honey, researchers show also show they also exploit the bees wax for cosmetics³, fuel, medicine and to perform rituals.

Bees wax contains complex facts that leave a recognizable residues⁵ on       pottery⁶ and other archeological artifacts. And scientist have now used that bees wax residue⁴ to analyze⁷ what they determine to be the  earliest known human-and-bee association dating back some nine thousand years. The researchers survey Europe, the   and north Africa.

They found that bees wax or pottery vessels⁸ from   in or near  modern-day turkey.They also discovered that the first evidence of bees wax at     in north Africa. And the lack of wax residues in Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavian Peninsula let them take include that  those locations were above what must have been  more than   limits for honey bees. The study is in the journal Nature.

The researcher say that the bees wax residues at these human occupied sites may be    very beginning of  may be at the  with thousands of years of   sweet results for us all.

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