Project Description
The UNM-UCSB Tsimane Health and Life History Project is a joint health and anthropology project aimed at providing medical care and conducting anthropological research among the Tsimane, an indigenous forager-farming group living in the southwest corner of the department of Beni, in lowland Bolivia.
Research with the Tsimane of Amazonian Bolivia began in 2001 under the joint directorship of Michael Gurven (Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara) and Hillard Kaplan (Anthropology, University of New Mexico). Research is approached from the perspectives of human evolutionary ecology and life history theory with the goal of testing specific hypotheses concerning the human lifecourse.
