Surface Replication, Fidelity and Data Loss in Traditional Dental Microwear and Dental Microwear Texture Analysis [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2019 AbstractDental microwear studies often analyze casts rather than original surfaces, although the information loss associated with reproduction is rarely considered. To investigate the sensitivity of high magnification (150x) microwear analysis to common surface replication materials and methods, we compared areal surface texture parameters (ISO 25178-2)
Mihlbachler, Matthew C. +2 more
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The effectiveness of using carbonate isotope measurements of body tissues to infer diet in human evolution: Evidence from wild western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)* [PDF]
, 2015 Changes in diet throughout hominin evolution have been linked with important evolutionary changes. Stable carbon isotope analysis of inorganic apatite carbonate is the main isotopic method used to reconstruct fossil hominin diets; to test its ...
Boesch, Christophe +3 more
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Behavioural Complexity and Modern Traits in the Philippine Upper Palaeolithic [PDF]
, 2012 Behavioral modernity has been a widely neglected topic for Southeast Asia’s prehistory. Evidence of modern packages or even traits is basically absent in the Palaeolithic assemblages.
Pawlik, Alfred F.
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Nature Communications, 2020 Microwear patterns on teeth can be used to infer diet as different foods leave different marks. Here, Bestwick and colleagues analyse microwear from the teeth of pterosaurs—extinct flying reptiles colloquially known as “pterodactyls”—to reconstruct their
Jordan Bestwick +3 more
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Diet reduces the effect of exogenous grit on tooth microwear
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2020 Exogenous grit adherent to the surface of food items and food fracture properties have each been considered important factors contributing to pattern and degree of tooth wear in mammals.
Licheng Hua +4 more
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Experimental Perspective on Fallback Foods and Dietary Adaptations in Early Hominins [PDF]
, 2014 The robust jaws and large, thick-enameled molars of the Plio–Pleistocene hominins Australopithecus and Paranthropus have long been interpreted as adaptations for hard-object feeding.
Jeremiah E. Scott +4 more
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Diet-related buccal dental microwear patterns in Central African Pygmy foragers and Bantu-speaking farmer and pastoralist populations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Pygmy hunter-gatherers from Central Africa have shared a network of socioeconomic interactions with non-Pygmy Bantu speakers since agropastoral lifestyle spread across sub-Saharan Africa.
Alejandro Romero +3 more
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Contextualizing Buccal Dental Microwear Variations During the Byzantine Period in Jordan
Dental Anthropology, 2014 This study scanned 14 buccal surfaces of teeth casts microscopically from the Byzantine sites of Yajuz and Sa'ad in Jordan, and 7 samples from the Natufian site of El Wad in Palestine for the purpose of studying buccal microwear.
Mohammad Alrousan +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 In mammals, complex dental microwear textures (DMT) representing differently sized and shaped enamel lesions overlaying each other have traditionally been associated with the seeds and kernels in frugivorous diets, as well as with sclerotized insect ...
Daniela E. Winkler +12 more
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Fossil pollen records reveal a late rise of open-habitat ecosystems in Patagonia [PDF]
, 2012 The timing of major turnovers in terrestrial ecosystems of the Cenozoic Era has been largely interpreted from the analysis of the assumed feeding preference of extinct mammals. For example, the expansion of open-habitat ecosystems (grasslands or savannas)
Barreda, Viviana Dora, Palazzesi, Luis
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