Experimental approaches are often used to better understand the mechanisms behind and
consequences of post-mortem alteration on proxies for diet reconstruction. Dental microwear …

Objectives Studies of dental microwear of bioarchaeological assemblages and extant
mammals from museum collections show that surface texture can provide a valuable proxy …

The causes of Neandertal anterior tooth wear patterns, including labial rounding, labial
scratches, and differential anterior-posterior wear, have been debated for decades. The …

Recent investigations of dental microwear have shown that such analyses may ultimately
provide valuable information about the diets of fossil species. However, no background …

Objectives This study analyzes and compares dental microwear textures on occlusal and
buccal surfaces from the same tooth to determine if using these surfaces in tandem can …

One potentially problematic aspect of dental microwear analysis is sensitivity to the
resolution (fineness of detail) at which dental wear surfaces are viewed. Magnification is one …

Dental microwear has been used in paleoecology for nearly half a century. The advent of
technologies in the past decade has allowed for enamel surfaces to be scanned in 3D, and …

In most mammals and a rare few reptilian lineages the evolution of precise dental occlusion
led to the capacity to form functional chewing surfaces due to pressures generated while …

Incisor microwear patterns have been shown to reflect aspects of diet and ingestive
behaviors in a wide range of nonhuman primates. While some studies have suggested that …

Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) quantifies microscopic scar or wear patterns left
on teeth by different foods or extraneous ingested items such as grit. It can be a powerful tool …