Chronic inflammation without heart disease among the Tsimane’
17 Dec
The Tsimane’ Health and Life History Project
The Tsimane’ are a population of some 9,000 forager-horticulturalists inhabiting a vast area of lowland forests, and savannas east of the Andes in the Bolivian Amazon. They live in about 80 small villages without running water or electricity, and make a living through swidden agriculture, hunting, fishing, gathering, and occasional wage labor.
The Tsimane’ offer some of the last remaining opportunities to study the effects of kin, culture, and ecology on aging in a small-scale, natural fertility, kin-based, subsistence society, and for this reason have been the focus of study by the UNM-UCSB Tsimane’ Health and Life History Project which began in 2001.
