Dental microwear analysis has proven to be a valuable tool for the reconstruction of aspects
of diet in early hominins. That said, sample sizes for some groups are small, decreasing our …

Reconstructions of foraging behavior and diet are central to our understanding of fossil
hominin ecology and evolution. Current hypotheses for the evolution of the genus Homo …

The importance of diet in primate ecology has motivated the use of a variety of methods to
reconstruct dietary habits of extinct hominin taxa. Dental microwear is one such approach …

Dental microwear has proven to be a valuable tool for reconstructing diets of fossil
vertebrates. However, recent studies have suggested that the pattern of microscopic …

Paleontologists use fossil teeth to reconstruct the diets of early hominins and other extinct
species. Some evidence is adaptive: nature selects for tooth size, shape, and structure best …

Molar occlusal microwear texture and anisotropy analyses of 3 Australopithecus anamensis
fossil specimens have shown complexity values similar to those of Au. afarensis, indicating …

Objectives A recent study of dental chipping suggested that Homo naledi teeth were
exposed to “acute trauma” on a regular basis during life, presumably from the consumption …

Conventional wisdom ties the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo to
environmental changes that occurred near the end of the Pliocene. The basic idea is that …

Bovids are often used as paleoenvironmental proxies because they are among the most
commonly recovered large mammals at many fossil hominin sites and because modern …

Buccal microwear patterns on teeth are good indicators of the abrasiveness of foodstuffs and
have been used to trace the dietary habits of fossil species, including primates and …