This paper presents a brief synopsis of work on relationships between mammalian tooth
form and function, and considers the role of dental wear in studies of mammal teeth …

Neoecology and paleoecology both seek to answer the same questions, albeit using
different material, at different time scales and with different limitations. Nevertheless, too …

Dental microwear has long been used as evidence concerning the diets of extinct species.
Here, we present a comparative baseline series of dental microwear textures for a sample of …

Neanderthal diets are reported to be based mainly on the consumption of large and medium
sized herbivores, while the exploitation of other food types including plants has also been …

Many researchers have suggested that Australopithecus anamensis and Australopithecus
afarensis were among the earliest hominins to have diets that included hard, brittle items …

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 …

Large herbivorous mammals have evolved chewing systems capable of processing a large
variety of structurally diverse foods. Three-dimensional (3D) surface texture parameters are …

Despite the increased use of light microscopy in microwear analysis, studies that recognize
observer error are scarce. Nonetheless, microwear analysis based on light microscopy may …

The Kalamakia cave, a Middle Paleolithic site on the western coast of the Mani peninsula,
Greece, was excavated in 1993–2006 by an interdisciplinary team from the Ephoreia of …

Dental microwear analysis is a proxy for analysing the diet in extinct and extant vertebrates,
especially mammals. The limits of these approaches are still rather poorly known, especially …