Dental microwear has been used for decades to reconstruct the diets of fossil hominins and
bioarchaeological populations. The basic theory has been that hard‐brittle foods (eg, nuts …

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

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 …

Microwear patterns from Natufian hunter‐gatherers (12,500–10,250 bp) and early Neolithic
(10,250–7,500 bp) farmers from northern Israel are correlated with location on facet nine …

Dental microwear analysts have demonstrated that hard diets leave numerous microscopic
pits on occlusal surfaces. The relationship between occlusal pitting and gross macrowear …

Buccal–dental microwear depends on the abrasive content of chewed foodstuffs and can
reveal long‐term dietary trends in human populations. However, in vivo experimental …

Most studies of microscopic wear on non‐human primate teeth have focused on the occlusal
surfaces of molars. Recent analyses of the buccal surfaces of human cheek teeth have …

Research in buccal microwear started in the late 1980s with a hypothesis relating striation
length by orientation with the proportion of plant and meat foods in the diet. Such …

There is a degree of correlation between dietary habits and dental microwear in extant
primates, and this has enabled inferences to be made about prehistoric diets. Several …

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 …