Introduction to the Sphakia Survey
by Simon Price, Oxford University

Original text © 2001 Lucia Nixon, Jennifer Moody, Simon Price, and Oliver Rackham - The Sphakia Survey: Internet Edition

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Bee Keeping 

II. Sites where Graeco-Roman ceramic hives found in association with other material. 

Some of these sites are beehive sites, but the majority are settlement sites. 

·        Go back to the menu for the Site Catalogue (by clicking on the back arrow).

·        Click the button at the top Clear Form (which cancels your previous selections).

·        At the bottom of the Advanced Selection section on the “Artefact Comment” line pull down the menu.

·        Choose “beehive” form the keyword menu at the right.

·        Click the “Begin Search” button. 

The resulting list, of 63 sites, includes some but not all of the sites found in the previous search (because not all of them have remains of ceramic beehives). Site 6.25 is there again, and clicking on the site number will produce the same record as you have already seen.

·        But this time there are also sites in Region 8 (their site numbers begin with 8).

·        Click on the site number for one of them in the left-hand column, for example 8.07

·        The resulting record has a brief account of the site (we give this prose only for sites in Region 8).

Possible questions to think about: 

1. From which Regions do beehives come?
2. At what sort of sites are beehives found? What inferences can be drawn about bee keeping in Region 8?
3. How typical of Sphakia as a whole is Region 8? 

·        A second database includes (for Region 8) information about all the Graeco-Roman ceramic beehives that we found.

·        In the frame at the bottom right, click on “Region 8 Ceramics.” [IMAGE 2]

·        This database will then appear in place of the Sites Database in the frame at the top.

·        In the fourth line “Function,” pull down the menu “Choose Function” at the right.

·        Select “Beehive.”

·        Click on the button “Begin Search” at the top. 

The resulting list of 126 items is a complete list of the ceramic beehive fragments from Region 8. 

Possible question to think about:  

1. At how many sites in Region 8 are beehives found?
2. At how many of those sites are there significant numbers of beehive fragments?
3. How might you account for this?

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