Abstract
Recent ethnoarchaeological research among Okiek hunter-gatherers of the western Mau Escarpment, Kenya, identifies sharing of meat as an important factor affecting body part representation in Okiek faunas. Meat sharing among the Okiek occurs between isolated households and is chiefly patterned by social relationships, hunting success and animal size. Whole animals are rarely found in faunal assemblages. Bones from large animals are more dispersed than bones from small animals, and there is great variability in body part profiles accumulated by individual households. The households of more successful hunters and especially well-liked individuals accumulate more bones, and bones associated with higher nutritional utility, than other households. As a result, sharing of meat can create similar body part profiles to those commonly attributed by archaeologists to differential transport of animal carcasses.
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