Paleopathologists face complicated presentations of osteological conditions that ac-crued
over a considerable period of ill-health. Determining the relative sequence of symptoms and …

Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is a means for interpreting microscopic features
that form on teeth as a result of mastication. Although initially developed for reconstructing …

[eng] Previous research has shown that dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is a key
method in studying the diet of animals and humans in their last moments of life. Enamel …

Objectives The current study seeks to determine if a sample of foragers, farmers, and
pastoralists are distinguishable based on their dental microwear texture signatures …

Diet and behavioral strategies of modern humans are examined through several indirect
and direct lenses. One of the direct lenses is dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) …

Teeth provide a perfect vessel for reconstructing diet and behavior in the fossil record.
Dental microwear—that is, scratches, pits, or textures that form on the enamel surface due to …

Several recent studies have demonstrated the efficacy of dental microwear analysis (DMA)
for dietary reconstruction among nonhuman primates, early hominids, and prehistoric …

Recent research has established that microscopic tooth wear patterns, dental microwear, is
correlated with diet in several modern mammal species. There is known to be a relationship …

Diet is widely recognized as the single most important parameter underlying" behavioral and
ecological differences among living animals. Bioarchaeologists and paleontologists …

Use-wear analysis is a method in archeology and paleoanthropology that identifies the
functions of tools and teeth by closely examining the characteristics of their surface damage …