The Economic Anatomy of Game Species

在国家科学基金会的支持下，詹姆斯·奥康奈尔博士 凯伦·卢柏将研究肉类的解剖分布， 它在东非各种野生动物中营养价值 物种 与肯尼亚政府密切合作， 政府，他们将获得接触ca的尸体。 肯尼亚野生动物管理局捕杀的五种动物。 他们 将用传统的方式运输并屠宰尸体 然后再确定肉和骨髓的数量， 不同的解剖部位。 营养分析也将 进行，并在此基础上，每一部分的相对“价值” 可以确定。 处理过程中涉及的成本也可能 并确定成本/效益比率。 动物的骨头代表了食物的剩余部分， 在此基础上， 考古学家试图重建史前人类的行为 模式. 通常是意外和非随机的身体分布 在现场发现零件，这些零件可能很难 解释 为了解决这个明显的难题，博士。 奥康奈尔和他的同事们研究了哈扎，一个礼物- 东非的狩猎者和采集者， 结果令人惊讶，因为它们不符合一个简单的 最小努力模式 然而，涉及控制的研究 从未对非洲野生物种进行过屠杀， 希望收集到的公用事业信息能提供新的信息， 在这个问题上。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。 因为动物群 从许多考古遗址中发现了遗骸， 构成了一个主要的数据来源，许多考古学家专注于 分析这些材料。 Drs收集的信息。 O 'Connell和Lupo将提供有价值的数据， 广泛应用于许多考古学领域。 目标是 了解人类的生存策略以及这些策略是如何发展的 随着时间

With National Science Foundation support, Drs. James O'Connell and Karen Lupo will study the anatomical distribution of meat and its nutritional value in a variety of East African wild game species. Working in close collaboration with the Kenyan government, they will be given access to the carcasses of ca. five species of game culled by the Kenyan Wildlife Service. They will transport and have the carcasses butchered in a traditional manner and then determine the amounts of meat and marrow from different anatomical portions. Nutritional analyses will also be conducted and on this basis the relative "value" of each portion can be determined. The costs involved in processing can also be measured and a cost/benefit ratio established. Animal bones which represent the remains of meals are often recovered from prehistoric African sites and on this basis archaeologists attempt to reconstruct prehistoric behavior patterns. Often unexpected and non-random distributions of body parts are discovered at sites and these can be difficult to explain. In an attempt to solve this apparent puzzle, Dr. O'Connell and his colleagues have studied the Hadza, a present- day group of East African hunters and gatherers and again the results are surprising because they do not conform to a simple least effort model. However, studies which involve controlled butchering have never been conducted on wild African species and hopefully the utility information collected will shed new light on this question. This research is important for several reasons. Because faunal remains are recovered from many archaeological sites and constitute a major data source, many archaeologists focus on the analysis of such material. The information collected by Drs. O'Connell and Lupo will provide valuable data which will be widely used in many archaeological contexts. The goal is to understand human subsistence strategies and how these developed over time.