Experimental approaches to assess the effect of composition of abrasives in the cause of dental microwear [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Dental microwear is used to investigate feeding ecology. Animals ingest geological material in addition to food. The full effect of geological abrasives on tooth wear is unknown.
Matthew C. Mihlbachler +2 more
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On the use of dental microwear texture analysis to determine aetiology and assess wear of dental tissues for clinical evaluation [PDF]
Biosurface and BiotribologyHere, we present and synthesise some recent collaborative efforts in our laboratories to establish protocols for using dental microwear texture analysis, originally developed to reconstruct diets of fossil mammals and to aid in the clinical assessment of
Peter S. Ungar, Anderson T. Hara
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Testing Dietary Hypotheses of East African Hominines Using Buccal Dental Microwear Data. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 There is much debate on the dietary adaptations of the robust hominin lineages during the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition. It has been argued that the shift from C3 to C4 ecosystems in Africa was the main factor responsible for the robust dental and ...
Laura Mónica Martínez +3 more
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Dental microwear texture analysis along reptile tooth rows: complex variation with non-dietary variables [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is a powerful technique for reconstructing the diets of extant and extinct taxa. Few studies have investigated intraspecific microwear differences along with tooth rows and the influence of endogenous non-dietary ...
Jordan Bestwick +3 more
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Climate Change Challenges Grey Wolf Resilience: Insights From Dental Microwear [PDF]
Ecol LettThe grey wolf exemplifies ecological resilience, having survived major climatic fluctuations since the Middle Pleistocene. Once the world's most widely distributed mammal, its range has been drastically reduced by human‐driven habitat loss, persecution ...
A. A. Burtt +7 more
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Three-dimensional dental microwear in type-Maastrichtian mosasaur teeth (Reptilia, Squamata) [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Mosasaurs (Squamata, Mosasauridae) were large aquatic reptiles from the Late Cretaceous that filled a range of ecological niches within marine ecosystems.
F. Holwerda +4 more
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A long-term perspective on Neanderthal environment and subsistence: Insights from the dental microwear texture analysis of hunted ungulates at Combe-Grenal (Dordogne, France) [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Large bovids and cervids constituted major components of the European Middle Palaeolithic faunas and hence a key resource for Neanderthal populations. In paleoenvironmental reconstructions, red deer (Cervus elaphus) occurrence is classically considered ...
Emilie Berlioz +2 more
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The primate community of Cachoeira (Brazilian Amazonia): a model to decipher ecological partitioning among extinct species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Dental microwear analysis is conducted on a community of platyrrhine primates from South America. This analysis focuses on the primate community of Cachoeira Porteira (Para, Brazil), in which seven sympatric species occur: Alouatta seniculus, Ateles ...
Anusha Ramdarshan +3 more
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Integrating buccal and occlusal dental microwear with isotope analyses for a complete paleodietary reconstruction of Holocene populations from Hungary [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Dietary reconstruction is used to make inferences about the subsistence strategies of ancient human populations, but it may also serve as a proxy to characterise their diverse cultural and technological manifestations. Dental microwear and stable isotope
Raquel Hernando +23 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has emerged as a valuable method for investigating the feeding ecology of vertebrates. Over the past decade, three-dimensional topographic data from microscopic regions of tooth surfaces have been collected, and ...
M. Kubo +4 more
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