Hunting Hoppers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2575455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David B Madsen (0000-0002-4477-103X, Utah State Historical Society, corresponding author), James E Kirkman (Utah State Historical Society) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 593-604 |
| Publication date | 1988-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/281220 |
| OpenAlex | W4248553731 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 2 |
Lakeside Cave deposits spanning the last 5,000 years contain evidence of grasshopper (Melanoplus sanguinipes) use. Abundant ethnographic/ethnohistoric data suggest the widespread use of hoppers and other insects. Procurement strategies may be unique to the Great Salt Lake area. During the summer, salted and sun-dried hoppers are washed up on beaches and form windrows up to .2 m× 1.5 m× 15 km Hoppers produce over 3,010 kcal/ kg, and return rates average 272,649 kcal/hour. Digestible proportions have not been determined, but even at a return rate well below the experimental value, optimality models suggest hopper collection should be favored over all other collected resources
Archaeology · Biology · Cave · Geography · Grasshopper · Salt lake · Ecology · Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies · Plant and animal studies · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Middle-Range Theory and Hunter-Gatherers
Archaeological aspects of insect use
Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis
Technological Change from the Terminal Pleistocene Through Early Holocene in the Eastern Great Basin, USA
Drivers of insect consumption across human populations
Hunter-gatherer archaeology in California and the Great Basin
The incredible edible hare
Bringing it all back home
The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40
Interpreting abundance indices
Doing Great Basin archaeology recently
Climate change, human population growth, or both? Upper Paleolithic subsistence shifts in southern Greece
Implications of a mass kill site of springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) in South Africa
Optimal foraging, dietary change, and site use during the Paleolithic at Klissoura Cave 1 (southern Greece)
Late Pleistocene subsistence in the Great Basin
The Floating Island Cave mammals
Late Holocene Great Basin prehistory
Prehistory of Nevada's northern tier
Middle and Late Holocene Hunting in the Great Basin
Environmental manipulation for edible insect procurement
Processing insect abundance
Thinking outside the box
Does Size Matter? Body Size, Mass Collecting, and Their Implications for Understanding Prehistoric Foraging Behavior
In Pursuit of Mobile Prey
Small prey hunting technology and zooarchaeological measures of taxonomic diversity and abundance
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2022 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |