A big welcome to Sean McBride who obviously has a lot more practical
experience than some of us 'ivory tower' types (maybe I'm the only one!).

Re the honey issue, I don't think that Betty Meehan's study can give us a
true sense of how much honey was eaten, given that refined sugar was in
plentiful supply to this group and they satisfied their hunger for
sweetness in this way.  I agree that the only cap on honey consumption
would have been the extent of availability. While the native bees may have
produced much less than domestic bees, there seems to have been plentiful
hives and thousands of bees in each hive. The honey ant was also a source
of concentrated sweetness and as, Sean says, flowers were a source of
sugars as well. I have also read references to the fact that fermented
flower water was consumed as a beverage. I don't have the expertise to
comment on the allergy paper but I'm not sure if allergy tests to whole
insects are appropriate when the proteins are digested to amino acids
before absorption.  Loren Cordain could comment here but he is out of email
contact as present.

Best wishes Jennie

Jennie Brand Miller  PhD
Associate Professor in Human Nutrition
Department of Biochemistry  G08
University of Sydney
NSW 2006  Australia
Phone: (61 2) 9351 3759
Fax: (61 2) 9351 6022