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Tubers as fallback foods and their impact on Hadza hunter-gatherers.

Marlowe, Frank W., Berbesque, Julia C.·2009·American Journal of Physical Anthropology
DOI 10.1002/ajpa.21040
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The Hadza are hunter‐gatherers in Tanzania. Their diet can be conveniently categorized into five main categories: tubers, berries, meat, baobab, and honey. We showed the Hadza photos of these foods and asked them to rank them in order of preference. Honey was ranked the highest. Tubers, as expected from their low caloric value, were ranked lowest. Given that tubers are least preferred, we used kilograms of tubers arriving in camp across the year as a minimum estimate of their availability. Tubers fit the definition of fallback foods because they are the most continuously available but least preferred foods. Tubers are more often taken when berries are least available. We examined the impact of all foods by assessing variation in adult body mass index (BMI) and percent body fat (%BF) in relation to amount of foods arriving in camp. We found, controlling for region and season, women of reproductive age had a higher %BF in camps where more meat was acquired and a lower %BF where more tubers were taken. We discuss the implications of these results for the Hadza. We also discuss the importance of tubers in human evolution. Am J Phys Anthropol, 140:751–758, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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Authors
Marlowe, F. W., & Berbesque, J. C.
Affiliations
Florida State University (US)
Corresponding author
Marlowe, Frank W.
ORCID
Berbesque, Julia C.
Venue
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2009-04-06
Volume
140
Issue
4
Pages
751-758
ISSN
  • 0002-9483 (ISSN-L)
  • 1096-8644
DOI
10.1002/ajpa.21040
OpenAlex
W2016896745
Cited by
149
References
43
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FWCI
9.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • American Journal of Physical Anthropology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Indigenous Health and Education
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
Keywords
tubers, fallback foods, Hadza, hunter-gatherers, food preferences, body fat percentage, body mass index, diet, meat consumption, human evolution, food availability, women of reproductive age
MeSH terms
Adult, Age Factors, Body Composition, Diet, Ethnicity, Female, Food Preferences, Humans, Male, Seasons, Sex Factors, Tanzania, Body Mass Index, Statistics, Nonparametric, Plant Tubers

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