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Science and interpretation in microwear studies

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2014
Abstract Microwear analysis is regarded by some as problematical because of the subjective nature of the functional inferences. Aware of this problem, microwear analysts have proposed various methods of quantification that use several new analytical techniques.
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Incisor microwear of Sumatran anthropoid primates

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1994
AbstractSeveral studies have suggested that incisor microwear reflects diet and feeding adaptations of anthropoids. However, such studies have been largely qualitative, and interpretations have relied on anecdotal references to diet and tooth use reported in the socioecology literature.
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An evaluation of Keeley's microwear approach

Journal of Archaeological Science, 1981
Abstract Lawrence Keeley has developed a microwear approach to lithic use-wear analysis which he claims will enable an investigator to reconstruct aspects of implement function. A notable feature of his approach is the assertion that distinctive wear-polishes form as a result of contact with specific worked materials, making the identification of ...
Gerald A. Holley, Terry A. Del Bene
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A molar microwear texture analysis of pitheciid primates

American Journal of Primatology, 2017
Dental microwear textures have been examined for a broad range of extant primates to assess their efficacy for reconstructing diets of fossil species. To date though, no dental microwear texture data have been published for pitheciid molars, despite reported variation in degree of sclerocarpy and, by extension, the fracture properties of foods these ...
Anna J. Ragni, Mark F. Teaford, Peter S. Ungar   +2 more
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Microwear on quartz: Fact or fiction?

World Archaeology, 1985
Abstract This paper presents the results of initial investigations of use wear traces left on experimental quartz tools. The edges of experimentally used quartz flakes were examined using both a light microscope and a scanning electron microscope. The wear traces were compared with those on flakes of Brandon flint (used for the same amount of time on ...
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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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Lithic microwear analysis in archeology

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 1992
AbstractStone tools are the most durable and ubiquitous residue of prehistoric hominid activity. For this reason, archeologists attempt to learn as much as possible about hominid behavior from the analysis of lithic artifacts. Lithic microwear analysis reconstructs aspects of stone‐tool use from patterned variation in the traces of microscopic wear on ...
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Microwear

Thin Solid Films, 1996
R. Kaneko, T. Miyamoto, Y. Andoh, E. Hamada   +3 more
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Explanation of Microwear Patterns on Gravers

Plains Anthropologist, 1975
Two levels of microwear research are distinguished. The descriptive level of research is based on observation of microwear patterns on stone tools.
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Traceology (Microwear) studies in the USSR

World Archaeology, 1988
Abstract Current work at the Institute of Traceology in Leningrad continues and refines the principles of analysis established by the late Professor Semenov. Extensive experimental programmes provide the basis for interpreting archaeological assemblages, and are also used to identify evolutionary improvements in tool types such as scrapers and sickles.
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