Anthropological/Archaeological Method and Theory

David B. Madsen

Cricket collecting experiments; Utah/Colorado border

Multi-disciplinary Books and Monographs
2004 Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum (ed.). University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1994 Across the West: Human Population Movement and the Expansion of the Numa (ed., with D. Rhode). University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2004 Worst of Times, The Best of Times: Jackrabbit Hunting by Middle Holocene Human Foragers in the Bonneville Basin of Western North America (with D.N. Schmitt and K.D. Lupo). In, M. Mondini, S. Muñoz & S. Wickler (eds.), Colonization, Migration, and Marginal Areas: A Zooarchaeological Approach, pp. 86-95. Oxford: Oxbow Books, University of Oxford.
2004 Colonization of the Americas before the Last Glacial Maximum: Issues and Problems. In, D.B. Madsen (ed.), Entering America:Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum, pp. 1-26. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
2004 Recapitulation: The Relative Probabilities of Late Pre-LGM or Early Post-LGM Ages for the Initial Occupation of the Americas. In, D.B. Madsen (ed.), Entering America:Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum, pp. 1-26 Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
2000 Differential Transport Costs and High Altitude Occupation Patterns in the Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah (with T. Scott and B. Loosle). In, D.B. Madsen and M.D. Metcalf (eds.), Intermountain Archaeology, pp. 15-24. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1998 The Fremont Complex: A Behavioral Perspective (with S.R. Simms). Journal of World Prehistory 12:255-337.
1998 Mass Collecting and the Diet Breadth Model: A Great Basin Example (with D.N. Schmitt). Journal of Archaeological Science 25: 445-456.
1997 Winter Cattail Collecting Experiments (with L. Eschler and T. Eschler). Utah Archaeology 1997:55-70.
1993 Testing Diet Breadth Models: Examining adaptive change in the late prehistoric Great Basin. Journal of Archaeological Science 20: 321-329.
1991 Further Experiments in Native Food Procurement (with K.T. Jones). Utah Archaeology 1991: 68-77.
1989 Calculating the Cost of Resource Transportation: A Great Basin Example (with K.T. Jones). Current Anthropology 30(4): 529-534.
1989 A Grasshopper in Every Pot: In the Desert West, Small Game Makes Good Sense. Natural History 98(7): 22-25. (834k pdf)
1988 Hunting Hoppers (with J. Kirkman). American Antiquity 53(3): 593-604. (page 1) (page 2)
1988 The Prehistoric Use of Great Basin Marshes. In, C. Raven and R.G. Elston (eds.), Preliminary Investigations in Stillwater Marsh: Human Prehistory and Geoarchaeology, pp. 407-413. Intermountain Research Reports, Silver City, Nevada.
1982 Get it Where the Getting’s Good: A Variable Model of Great Basin Subsistence and Settlement Based on Data from the Eastern Great Basin. In, D. B. Madsen and J. F. O'Connell (eds.), Man and Environment in the Great Basin, pp. 207-226. SAA Papers No. 2. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.

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