What do we know and not know about dental microwear and diet

MF Teaford - Evolution of the human diet: the known, the …, 2007 - books.google.com
diet and dental microwear. Thus, while we often have significant differences in dental
microwear … As might be expected, given the variable diets of modern humans and the effects of …

A review of dental microwear and diet in modern mammals.

MF Teaford - Scanning Microscopy, 1988 - europepmc.org
Recent work has shown that microscopic wear patterns on teeth may yield insights into
variations in diet and tooth use in modern and prehistoric mammals. This paper presents a …

Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets

RS Scott, MF Teaford, PS Ungar - American Journal of Physical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
dental microwear corresponds with reported primate diets (microwear-diet specificity), and
2) the types of dietary inferences that may benefit most from microwear analyses as compared …

Dental microwear and diets of African early Homo

PS Ungar, FE Grine, MF Teaford, S El Zaatari - Journal of human evolution, 2006 - Elsevier
… This study presents dental microwear data for all available early Homo molar specimens
from eastern and southern Africa. These data are compared with those for a baseline series of …

Dental microwear textures: reconstructing diets of fossil mammals

LRG DeSantis - Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
… ) are correlated with known dietary behavior in extant taxa and reconstruct ancient diets in a
… This paper reviews how dental microwear textures can be useful to reconstructing diets in a …

Can dental microwear textures record inter-individual dietary variations?

G Merceron, G Escarguel, JM Angibault… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
… a few days to a few weeks, the dental microwear texture is, at least theoretically, the most …
still know precious little about how efficient dental microwear analysis really is in detecting such …

[PDF][PDF] 17 Dental microwear analysis: historical perspectives and new approaches

PS Ungar, RS Scott, JR Scott - Technique and application in dental …, 2008 - academia.edu
Dental microwear analysis is among the most effective ways of inferring diets of past peoples
and … Our understandings of relationships between dental microwear and diet/subsistence is …

Dental microwear and diet in Venezuelan primates

MF Teaford, JA Runestad - American Journal of Physical …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
dental microwear analyses are to live up to their potential, then we must have a better
grasp of variations in diet and dental microwear … tion through oversimplification of diet, microwear, …

Dental microwear and diet: Implications for determining the feeding behaviors of extinct primates, with a comment on the dietary pattern of Sivapithecus

HH Covert, RF Kay - American Journal of physical …, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
… added to its diet for 30 days, demonstrating that dental microwear can change quite rapidly.
While dental microwear may not always allow one to deduce the diets of fossil animals, …

Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei

PS Ungar, FE Grine, MF Teaford - PLoS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
… High microwear surface texture complexity and anisotropy in … the first quantitative analysis
of dental microwear for P. boisei… Here we evaluate two hypotheses using dental microwear