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That's recent history in the ANE, where the pyramids at Giza are nearly 5,000 years old.
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has there been some controversy that the jaredites could not have had bees?
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Whether or not they were cultivated, there are plenty of mentions of honey in the Bible. Israel, indeed, was the land of honey - if not milk.
http://www.honey-health.com/honey-52.shtml If anything, this would influence me to think that the Jaredites and their bees are anachronistic, since hives from 900 BCE are so rare, and the Jaredites are supposed to have lived 10000000000000000000 years ago. I'm not trying to argue, though - it's an interesting article and an important archaeological find. Thanks for posting it, though.
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Well, I think the significance is two-fold
1. They state in the article that the beekeeping industry was "highly developed" 3,000 years ago, which would imply the "technology" had been around long enough to become highly developed. 2. The biblical mention of "honey" had been viewed with skepticism until now because there was no evidence of beekeeping. Thus the conventional wisdom had been that the honey was not bee-made, but from dates and figs. Therefore, it's a sign that a current lack of archaeological evidence shouldn't be used to refute scriptural historical/cultural claims. So when the Book of Mormon has a reference about beekeeping maybe it isn't as far-fetched as it might have once been. |
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