Dental microwear analyses have become a standard part of paleobiological research (see
[1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6] for reviews). While informative, many microwear interpretations are …

Given the potential usefulness of dental microwear analyses in interpretations of
archaeological and paleontological material, it is surprising how little we know about …

Dental microwear analysis has been employed in studies of a wide range of modern and
fossil animals, yielding insights into the biology/ecology of those taxa. Some researchers …

Objective The etiology of dental microwear is incompletely understood, despite copious
documentation of wear patterns from wild and captive specimens across numerous …

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

Paleoanthropologists and vertebrate paleontologists have for decades debated the etiology
of tooth wear and its implications for understanding the diets of human ancestors and other …

Recent work has shown that microscopic wear patterns on teeth may yield insights into
variations in diet and tooth use in modern and prehistoric mammals. This paper presents a …

Investigators have used many techniques to understand diet and tooth use in prehistoric
species. A promising new addition to the analytical arsenal is dental microwear analysis …

Exogenous grit adherent to the surface of food items and food fracture properties have each
been considered important factors contributing to pattern and degree of tooth wear in …

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