Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations

RS Scott, PS Ungar, TS Bergstrom, CA Brown… - Journal of human …, 2006 - Elsevier
… Conventional methods of microwear analysis have usually … approach to microwear: dental
microwear texture analysis, … and scale-sensitive fractal analysis. Surface parameters for …

Dental microwear texture analysis in mammalian ecology

I Calandra, G Merceron - Mammal Review, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… The authors also found significant differences in dental microwear textures between males
and females in winter and in summer. The higher consumption of acorns and blackberries (…

Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins

RS Scott, PS Ungar, TS Bergstrom, CA Brown… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
… To understand the relationships between diet and dental microwear, we first examined living
animals with different diets. Cebus apella, for example, eats more fruit flesh and hard, brittle …

Minimizing inter-microscope variability in dental microwear texture analysis

SD Arman, PS Ungar, CA Brown… - Surface Topography …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
… A common approach to dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) uses confocal profilometry
in concert with scale-sensitive fractal analysis to help understand the diets of extinct …

Dental microwear texture analysis of extant African Bovidae

JR Scott - 2012 - degruyter.com
… This study uses dental microwear texture analysis to examine 25 species of extant African
… The results also indicate that dental microwear texture analysis can distinguish beyond the …

Applying dental microwear texture analysis to the living: Challenges and prospects

MA Correia, R Foley… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Considering that in vivo studies of dental microwear texture analysis have the potential to
increase our understanding of the association between patterns of dental microwear and …

Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets

RS Scott, MF Teaford, PS Ungar - American Journal of Physical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… These results reaffirm the utility of dental microwear texture analysis as an important tool
in making dietary inferences based on fossil primate samples. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2012. © …

Surface replication, fidelity and data loss in traditional dental microwear and dental microwear texture analysis

MC Mihlbachler, M Foy, BL Beatty - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
… In this paper, we compare the dental microwear of original … to generate molds for dental
microwear research. Based on … tooth surfaces using areal surface texture analysis (ISO 25178-…

Incorporating intraspecific variation into dental microwear texture analysis

SD Arman, TAA Prowse… - Journal of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
microwear have varied considerably over time [3–5], culminating in the advent of dental
microwear texture analysis (… quantification, using scale-sensitive fractal analysis (SSFA) [6], and …

Dental microwear textures: reconstructing diets of fossil mammals

LRG DeSantis - Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) typically uses an optical profiler to assess
three-dimensional tooth surfaces via standardized surface parameters (including scale-sensitive …