Addressing the wild yam question: how Baka hunter-gatherers acted and lived during two controlled foraging trips in the tropical rainforest of southeastern Cameroon

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• We designed observational surveys of controlled foraging trips of Baka hunter-gatherers in Cameroon to verify the ‘wild yam question’—i.e. is it possible for human beings to live without agricultural products in a tropical rainforest?—and to examine their foraging lifestyle. We observed two 20-day trips during which no agricultural or commercial food except salt and pepper could be used. The first trip was conducted by six married couples in August, the short dry season, of the year 2003, and the second one by eight married couples in October, the rainy season, 2005. The Baka cooperators obtained 22 species and 43 vernacular names of food in all during both survey periods. No cooperators lost weight from any food shortage in both seasons. Energy intake per consumption-day was estimated at 2528–2865 kilocalories in the dry season, and at 2479–2777 kilocalories in the rainy season. Providing more than 60% of estimated energy intake in both seasons, wild yam tubers proved to be an essential food to enable a foraging life in tropical rainforests. From this survey we could find no evidence that it is impossible to live independently of agriculture in a tropical rainforest although it seemed that the cooperators paid a high energy cost to secure food, especially wild yam tubers. This study implies that a Paleolithic foraging lifestyle in the African tropical rainforest was very likely, although not easy, and that Paleolithic foragers may have been the ancestors of the present ‘pygmy’ hunter-gatherers.

著者

• Yamauchi Taro

  Graduate School Of Health Sciences Hokkaido Univ.

• SATO Hiroaki

  Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Hayashi Koji

  Faculty Of Agriculture Tokyo University Of Agriculture And Technology

• KAWAMURA KYOHEI

  Faculty of education Human Sciences, Yamanashi University, Kofu

• INAI HIROYUKI

  Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto

• SATO Hiroaki

  Faculty of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine

• HAYASHI KOJI

  Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe

• KAWAMURA Kyohei

  Faculty of education Human Sciences, Yamanashi University

• YAMAUCHI TARO

  Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo

• SATO HIROAKI

  Faculty of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu

• INAI Hiroyuki

  Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University

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