Does Size Matter? Body Size, Mass Collecting, and Their Implications for Understanding Prehistoric Foraging Behavior

By A. Ugan. American Antiquity, 2005

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Subfields: Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology

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Evolution in Archaeology (2008, unknown): “…costs and is readily assessable using archaeological faunal data, the proportion of large-bodied vs. small-bodied animal bones has very frequently been used as a diet-breadth measure (e.g., Broughton 1994; see also Ugan 2005; for within-species size variation see, e.g., Mannino & Thomas 2002).”
Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis: Recent Applications and Future Challenges (2007, methodology): “Using collated data from a variety of sources, Ugan (2005a) argues that the increase in return rates from mass collecting are significant only for smaller fish and insects.”
Did climatic seasonality control late Quaternary artiodactyl densities in western North America (2008, methodology): “…not offset this great disparity in economic value, and indeed experimental and ethnographic data have demonstrated strong positive correlations between prey body size and caloric rates of return for human hunters using traditional methods (see Ugan, 2005, for a systematic analysis of these data).”
Is it Intensification Yet? Current Archaeological Perspectives on the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Economies (2015, background): “For example, children, senescent individuals, men seeking prestige, women foraging near camp, and group hunting techniques all deposit faunal remains in manners that can be inconsistent with the standard and intuitive perspective that larger package size indicates higher resource rank (Bird et al. 2”
Modeling wood acquisition strategies from archaeological charcoal remains (2009, background): “Instead authors turn to proxy measures for value (Bird et al., 2009; Broughton, 1994, 1997; Ugan, 2005) or computer simulations (Zeanah, 2004).”