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MicroWeaR: A new R package for dental microwear analysis [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2018 AbstractMastication of dietary items with different mechanical properties leaves distinctive microscopic marks on the surface of tooth enamel. The inspection of such marks (dental microwear analysis) is informative about the dietary habitus in fossil as well as in modern species. Dental microwear analysis relies on the morphology, abundance, direction,
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A study of microwear on chimpanzee molars: Implications for dental microwear analysis
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1982AbstractRecent 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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Journal of Human Evolution, 1999
The examination of microscopic dental wear allows inferences to be made about diet in extinct species. This study reconstructs the diet of Griphopithecus alpani, a 15 Ma fossil hominoid from the Miocene site of Paşalar in north-western Turkey, using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to examine the microscopic wear on its molar teeth.
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The examination of microscopic dental wear allows inferences to be made about diet in extinct species. This study reconstructs the diet of Griphopithecus alpani, a 15 Ma fossil hominoid from the Miocene site of Paşalar in north-western Turkey, using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to examine the microscopic wear on its molar teeth.
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Playing 'possum: A microwear experiment
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1983AbstractA recent experiment to evaluate the reliability of dental microwear as an indicator of diet seems to show that differences in diets fed to laboratory animals are not reflected by their tooth wear. We feel that these results are misleading, and reflect not so much the limits of microwear analysis per se, but rather result from the problems of ...
K D, Gordon, A C, Walker
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True grit: A microwear experiment
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1983AbstractRecently we noted the effects of experimental diets on microscopic dental wear in the American opossum and concluded that it might prove difficult to distinguish the microwear produced by an insectivorous diet from that produced by some kinds of herbivorous ones.
R F, Kay, H H, Covert
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Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2012AbstractDental microwear has long been used as evidence concerning the diets of extinct species. Here, we present a comparative baseline series of dental microwear textures for a sample of 21 anthropoid primate species displaying interspecific and intraspecific dietary variability.
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Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 1995
A silicon surface and a diamond-like carbon film were scanning scratched in the air. The silicon surfaces scratched with a light load upheaved immediately. This upheaval represents the pre-stage of wear. The silicon surface depressed by heavier scratching began to upheave after some time.
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A silicon surface and a diamond-like carbon film were scanning scratched in the air. The silicon surfaces scratched with a light load upheaved immediately. This upheaval represents the pre-stage of wear. The silicon surface depressed by heavier scratching began to upheave after some time.
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The quantification of microwear polishes
World Archaeology, 1985Abstract In the existing methodology of microwear analysis, both the descriptions and the comparisons of observed traces are highly subjective, which is unsatisfactory from many points of view. The authors describe various image processing techniques and discuss their potential to alleviate this situation by providing a means of quantifying microwear ...
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