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Brief communication: diet-induced changes in rates of human tooth microwear: a case study involving stone-ground maize.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1996
M. Teaford, James D. Lytle
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Tooth microwear analysis of Eotragus sansaniensis (Mammalia: Ruminantia), one of the oldest known bovids

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1992
ABSTRACT A comparative tooth micro wear data base was established and analyzed for seventeen extant ungulates (six browsing species, four mixed feeder species, and seven grazing species). The three dietary categories are clearly reflected by the microwear results.
N. Solounias, S. Moelleken
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Dental microwear of European Miocene catarrhines: evidence for diets and tooth use

Journal of Human Evolution, 1996
Abstract Paleontologists have identified ape-like primates from the middle and late Miocene of Europe for more than a century, and new finds continue to improve the record of these important forms. Both hominoids and plio-pithecids are recognized in these assemblages.
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Tooth microwear pattern in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) from Chizé (Western France) and relation to food composition

Small Ruminant Research, 2004
This study was designed to correlate the dental microwear pattern in a population of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) with seasonal dietary data. Fifty roe deer specimens from the Chize Forest in western France provides the material of this study. The shearing facet of the second molars is digitized using a 256 level gray scale light stereomicroscope ...
G. Merceron, L. Viriot, C. Blondel
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Dental Microwear Variability on Buccal Tooth Enamel Surfaces of Extant Catarrhini and the Miocene Fossil Dryopithecus laietanus (Hominoidea)

Folia Primatologica, 2006
Analyses of buccal tooth microwear have been used to trace dietary habits of modern hunter-gatherer populations. In these populations, the average den-sity and length of striations on the buccal surfaces of teeth are significantly cor-related with the abrasive potential of food items consumed.
J, Galbany, S, Moyà-Solà, A, Pérez-Pérez   +2 more
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Tooth Form and Function: Insights into Adaptation through the Analysis of Dental Microwear

2009
Mammalian molar form is clearly adapted to fracture foods with specific material properties. Studies of dental functional morphology can therefore offer important clues about the diets of fossil taxa. That said, analyses of tooth form provide insights into ability to fracture resistant foods rather than the food preferences of individuals.
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Diet of Mongolian gazelles and Tibetan antelopes from steppe habitats using premaxillary shape, tooth mesowear and microwear analyses

Mammalian Biology, 2011
The diets of Procapra gutturosa (Mongolian gazelle) and Pantholops hodgsoni (Tibetan antelope) are investigated through premaxillary shape, mesowear, and microwear analyses. The objective of the study is to test the hypothesis that the two species have similarities in dietary habits and also similarities with arctic or subarctic ungulates such as ...
Florent Rivals, Nikos Solounias, George B. Schaller   +2 more
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Season of bison mortality in TD10.2 bone bed at Gran Dolina site (Atapuerca): Integrating tooth eruption, wear, and microwear methods

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2016
Abstract The middle Pleistocene assemblage of Gran Dolina TD10.2 bone bed level (Atapuerca, Spain) is composed primarily by bison remains ( Bison sp.) belonging to a minimal number of individuals of 60. The mortality and taphonomical features suggest an anthropogenic origin product of mass predation.
Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Florent Rivals, Palmira Saladié, Eudald Carbonell   +3 more
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Dental microwear of extant Lutrinae

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Few living mammals are as exemplary of a semiaquatic lifestyle as otters, exhibiting a diverse array of ways that an animal can use water and land resources similar to the way other clades, such as cetaceans or pinnipeds, may have used their habitats ...
Brian Lee Beatty, Alvin Bao
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Tooth microwear analysis of Mammuthus (Archidiskodon) meridionalis gromovi (Alexeeva and Garutt, 1965) from Montopoli (Lower Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy): A methodological approach

2003
The alimentary habits of large mammals can be deduced from the microwear tracks on tooth enamel examined under the Scanning Electronic Microscope. The data obtained from a preliminary analysis of the last upper molars of a Mammuthus meridionalis gromovi (Alexeeva & Garutt, 1965) specimen from Montopoli (Lower Valdarno, Tuscany; Montopoli faunal unit ...
PALOMBO, Maria Rita, V. Curiel
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