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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Dental wear analyses are classically applied to mammals because they have evolved heterodont dentitions for sophisticated mastication. Recently, several studies have shown a correlation between pre-assigned and analytically inferred diet preferences in ...
Daniela E. Winkler +8 more
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Dietary abrasiveness is associated with variability of microwear and dental surface texture in rabbits. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Dental microwear and 3D surface texture analyses are useful in reconstructing herbivore diets, with scratches usually interpreted as indicators of grass dominated diets and pits as indicators of browse.
Ellen Schulz +5 more
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Masticatory jaw movement of Exaeretodon argentinus (Therapsida: Cynodontia) inferred from its dental microwear. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Dental microwear of four postcanine teeth of Exaeretodon argentinus was analyzed using both two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) methods to infer their masticatory jaw movements.
Tai Kubo, Eisuke Yamada, Mugino O Kubo
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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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Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 2021 Randolph E Donahue, Adrian A Evans
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Dental topography and microwear texture in Sapajus apella
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2017 Dental microwear texture pattern has been associated with aspects of diet for a broad range of mammalian taxa. The basic idea is that soft, tough foods are sheared with a steeper angle of approach between opposing occlusal surfaces, whereas hard, brittle
Peter S. Ungar +3 more
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Dental microwear differences between eastern and southern African fossil bovids and hominins
South African Journal of Science, 2016 Dental microwear has proven to be a valuable tool for reconstructing diets of fossil vertebrates. However, recent studies have suggested that the pattern of microscopic scratches and pits on teeth may be more reflective of environmental grit than of food
Peter S. Ungar +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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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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Anthropological Review, 2017 Several Neandertals derive from the karstic caves of the Meuse river tributaries of Belgium, including Engis 2, Scladina 4A-4 and Spy 1. These may form a group that is distinct in maxillary first molar occlusal outlines compared to La Quina 5 from ...
Williams Frank L’Engle +2 more
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