According to Warren and Palmer, in the Sumerian culture there were fowlers who caught birds with an arsenal of nets. Deliveries of fifty-four roasted birds are recorded in Sumerian documents. This would explain the phrase in Ether, "and they did also lay snares and catch fowls of the air" (Ether 2:2). Many of those fowl were taken on the final boats used by the Jaredites to cross the ocean (Ether 6:4). According to Mesoamerican scholars, birds were also an important part of the diet in the Olmec site of San Lorenzo (Coe and Diehl, 1980). [Bruce W. Warren and David A. Palmer, The Jaredite Saga, ch. 4, unpublished]