The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania

Frank W. Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one, of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the Hadza to cover, the more traditional topics in ethnography-subsistence,...