Publications by authors named "Francois Poplin"
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- Honeybee populations face threats from pesticides, diseases, and other stressors, highlighting their vital role in agriculture and the historical relationship between humans and bees dating back to ancient Egypt and even the Stone Age.
- Evidence suggests that humans have been harvesting bee products, particularly beeswax, since prehistoric times, and its chemical composition allows for recognizing these products in archaeological contexts.
- Research indicates that Neolithic farmers across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa continuously exploited bee products from at least the seventh millennium cal BC, suggesting an essential cultural and technological role for honeybees in early agricultural societies.
Pre-Neolithic wild boar management and introduction to Cyprus more than 11,400 years ago.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
September 2009
The beginnings of pig domestication in Southwest Asia are controversial. In some areas, it seems to have occurred abruptly ca. 10,500 years ago, whereas in nearby locations, it appears to have resulted from a long period of management of wild boar starting at the end of the Late Pleistocene.
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