Bone and Site Modification Processes Among the Okiek

菲奥娜马歇尔博士和她的同事们将在 肯尼亚的Okiek人 奥基克人，他们住在当地的小地方， 分散在肯尼亚高地的群体， 人类学的兴趣，因为他们保留了传统的 生活方式严重依赖狩猎和采集 野生植物食品 它们也很重要，因为它们占据了 高山地森林，对这种适应知之甚少 环境. 团队将提供亨特的案例研究- 采集动物的用途。 他们将与Okiek一起生活，陪伴 狩猎聚会，研究动物群的获取，骨骼改造， 然后丢弃 因为这个项目将持续12个月 和Okiek移动频繁，这将是可能的研究 在不同地点、不同生境中的动物群利用， 在不同的季节。 数据将在Okiek上收集 狩猎策略，屠体处理的细节， 人的行为与地点和性格的关系 伤口和骨折 记录将保存在骨头上 运输和丢弃。 废弃的骨头将被映射，收集， 并进行研究，废弃后的骨改造过程将 在选定的地点进行检查。 这项研究将完成几个人类学上重要的 目标. 它将记录一种独特的，快速消失的 生活 它还将提供洞察狩猎和传统 生存实践和产量数据， 考古学家了解过去。 最后通过 对生存与发展之间关系的研究 动物群的副产品，它将提供一套工具， 这将有助于解释考古遗迹。 直到大约一万年前，人类都以狩猎为生。 以及许多泛人类的特征，如家庭， 语言就是在这种背景下发展起来的。 我们可以更好地理解 当我们在这个更广阔的背景下看待自己时， 马歇尔博士的研究将有助于实现这一目标。

Dr. Fiona Marshall and her colleagues will conduct research among the Okiek people of Kenya. The Okiek, who live in small local groups scattered throughout the highlands of Kenya, are of great anthropological interest because they have retained a traditional lifestyle which relies heavily on hunting and the gathering of wild plant foods. They are also important because they occupy high montane forest and little is known about adaptation to such environments. The team will provide a case study of hunter- gatherer faunal use. They will live with the Okiek, accompany hunting parties, and study faunal acquisition, bone modification, and discard. Because the project will extend over twelve months and the Okiek move frequently, it will be possible to study faunal use at a variety of sites, in a variety of habitats, and through a variety of seasons. Data will be collected on Okiek hunting strategies, details of carcass processing, and the relationship between human actions and the location and character of cuts and bone breakage. Records will be kept on bone transport and discard. Discarded bone will be mapped, collected, and studied, and post-discard bone modification processes will be examined at selected sites. This research will accomplish several anthropologically important goals. It will document a unique, and fast disappearing way of life. It will also provide insight into hunting and traditional subsistence practices and yield data which will help archaeologists to understand the past. Finally, through examination of the relationship between subsistence and the faunal byproducts of this process, it will provide a set of tools which will aid in the interpretation of archaeological remains. Until approximately 10,000 years ago all humans lived by hunting and gathering and many pan-human traits such as the family and language developed in this context. We can better understand ourselves today when we view ourselves in this broader context. Dr. Marshall's research will contribute to this goal.