Quantitative Observational Studies of Forager Subsistence and Social Behavior

该项目将涉及三位研究人员，研究坦桑尼亚北部一个觅食社会的经济和社会行为。调查人员将对觅食和狩猎活动进行定量的行为观察，并观察和记录有关儿童保育、群体规模、食物分享和白天任务间时间分配的信息。这个项目很重要，因为它将帮助我们了解采集者做出的经济选择，这些选择和他们的行为与他们所处的环境有什么关系，以及他们的经济行为与他们的进化适应有什么关系。这个项目将提供一个有价值的案例研究，与喀拉哈里沙漠中被研究得更多的布须曼人进行比较。这种比较将帮助我们理解觅食群的行为，这对于理解我们自己的进化历史至关重要。

This project will involve three researchers studying the economic and social behavior of a foraging society of northern Tanzania. The investigators will conduct quantitative behavioral observations on foraging and hunting activities as well as observe and record information about child care, group size, food sharing, and time allocation across tasks during the day. The project is important because it will help us understand the economic choices that foragers make, how these choices and their behavior are related to the environment they live in, and how their economic behavior is related to their evolutionary adaptations. This project will provide a valuable case study to compare with the much more studied Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari desert. The comparison will help us understand foraging band behavior, which is essential in order to understand our own evolutionary past.