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Dental microwear and dental function

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 1994
AbstractInvestigators have used many techniques to understand diet and tooth use in prehistoric species. A promising new addition to the analytical arsenal is dental microwear analysis—the study of microscopic wear patterns on teeth. On‐going work is proceeding on a number of fronts.
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Dietary Variation Among Herculaneum's Victims of Mt. Vesuvius via Dental Microwear Texture Analysis.

American Journal of Biological Anthropology
The Roman site of Herculaneum provides an extraordinary opportunity to reconstruct ancient diets in the context of life course theory because everyone died simultaneously due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Christopher W. Schmidt, Ashley Remy, R. D’Anastasio   +2 more
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Dental microwear and diets of African early Homo

Journal of Human Evolution, 2006
Conventional wisdom ties the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo to environmental changes that occurred near the end of the Pliocene. The basic idea is that changing habitats led to new diets emphasizing savanna resources, such as herd mammals or underground storage organs. Fossil teeth provide the most direct evidence available for evaluating
Peter S, Ungar, Frederick E, Grine, Mark F, Teaford, Sireen, El Zaatari   +3 more
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Dental Microwear and Diets of Late Miocene Primates From Rudabánya, Hungary.

American Journal of Biological Anthropology
OBJECTIVES This study focuses on a dental microwear texture analysis of European pliopithecids and dryopithecins from the Miocene primate site of Rudabánya, Hungary. The goal is to determine whether these taxa, found in part together in the same deposits,
Peter Ungar, Anna K Wilcox, D. Begun
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Comparing Dental Microwear in the Populations at an Iron Age (c. 4010 BP) and Early Historic (c. 2600 BP) Site in South India

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has proven to be a valuable tool for separating bioarchaeological samples by subsistence practice, preferred diet, food‐processing technology, and cooking method.
Ruokuonuo Rose Yhome, K. Rajan, R. Sivanantham, M. Ramesh, R. Ajaykumar, R. Kaviya, M. Suresh, T. Arun Raj, V. P. Yathees Kumar, Peter Ungar   +9 more
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On the relationship of dental microwear to dental macrowear

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2009
AbstractDental microwear analysts have demonstrated that hard diets leave numerous microscopic pits on occlusal surfaces. The relationship between occlusal pitting and gross macrowear, however, is not well known. The current study seeks to elucidate the relationship between dental microwear and macrowear by determining if microscopically pitted teeth ...
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Microwear and morphology: Functional relationships between human dental microwear and the mandible

Journal of Human Evolution, 2006
Microscopic pits and scratches form on teeth during chewing, but the extent to which their formation is influenced by mandibular morphology is unknown. Digitized micrographs of the base of facet nine of the first, second, and third mandibular molar were used to record microwear features from an archaeological sample of modern humans recovered from ...
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Dental microwear texture analysis in mammalian ecology

Mammal Review, 2016
AbstractNeoecology and paleoecology both seek to answer the same questions, albeit using different material, at different time scales and with different limitations. Nevertheless, too often, neoecologists neglect paleoecology, and paleoecologists only use neoecology as a baseline for actualism.
Calandra, Ivan, Merceron, Gildas
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A study of microwear on chimpanzee molars: Implications for dental microwear analysis

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1982
AbstractRecent investigations of dental microwear have shown that such analyses may ultimately provide valuable information about the diets of fossil species. However, no background information about intraspecific variability of microwear patterns has been available until now. This study presents the results of an SEM survey of microwear patterns found
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Terrestrial foraging and dental microwear inPapio ursinus

Primates, 1999
Dental microwear of ten wild-shot chacma baboons (Papio urinus) form Northwest and Northern Privinces, South Africa was examined by scanning electron microscopy. All specimens were collected during the dry season, during which these primates exploit hypogeous (underground) food items, including tubers and corms. The microwear fabric of thisP.
David J. Daegling, Frederick E. Grine
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