Dietary information of fossil mammals can be revealed via the analysis of tooth morphology,
tooth wear, tooth geochemistry, and the microscopic wear patterns on tooth surfaces …

Fossil hominids often processed material held between their upper and lower teeth. Pulling
with one hand and cutting with the other, they occasionally left impact cut marks on the lip …

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

Analysis of dental calculus is increasingly important in archaeology, although the focus has
hitherto been on dietary reconstruction. Non-edible material has, however, recently been …

Working load is one factor that affects wear on stone tools. Despite the recognition of the
importance of the relationship between working load and the development of microwear on …

The use of 'teeth as tools'(non-masticatory or cultural-related dental wear) has largely been
employed as a proxy for studying of past human behavior, mainly in permanent dentition …

Early modern humans (EMH) are often touted as behaviorally advanced to Neandertals, with
more sophisticated technologies, expanded resource exploitation, and more complex …

Increasing attention has been directed toward rodents as a source of paleoenvironmental
data due to their discrete home ranges and their ubiquity and abundance in many fossil and …

Few microwear studies have been conducted on tools made from quartzite. Most rely on
visual observation of microwear features using optical light microscopes and scanning …

Dental fractures can be produced during life or post-mortem. Ante-mortem chipping may be
indicative of different uses of the dentition in masticatory and non-masticatory activities …