Dental microwear research rests at the boundary between biology and engineering. More
specifically, it combines basic principles of ecology with tribology,“the science and …

Dental macrowear is the nonpathological loss of dental hard tissues resulting from tooth use,
usually related to mastication. Other factors leading to macrowear include bruxism and …

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 …

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

Fifty years ago, investigators realized they could gain insights into jaw movement and tooth-
use through light-microscope analyses of wear patterns on teeth. Since then, numerous …

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 …

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 …

Dental microwear can teach us about diet and tooth‐use behaviors of past peoples and
fossil primates. Specific foods leave distinctive patterns of microscopic scratches and pits …

Dental microwear has been used in paleoecology for nearly half a century. The advent of
technologies in the past decade has allowed for enamel surfaces to be scanned in 3D, and …

Objectives The food that people and animals consume leaves microscopic traces on teeth in
predictable ways, and analyses of these markings—known as dental microwear analyses …