Characterizing variation in late precontact diets using dental microwear texture analysis: a Caborn-Welborn example

GF Holmes, CW Schmidt, CR Moore - Southeastern Archaeology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… This paper contributes to this understanding by comparing … dental microwear texture
analysis (DMTA). The current study aims to evaluate whether Caborn-Welborn dental microwear

Determining onset of significant facial pathology using dental wear and microwear texture analysis: a case study from the Middle Archaic (~ 5,500 BP) of Indiana.

A Casserly, R Van Sessen… - Dental …, 2014 - journal.dentalanthropology.org
… The dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) was undertaken to determine the similarity
of B. 54’s diet to others from the site in order to determine if she was able to consume typical …

Dental microwear texture analyses of the Paleoamericans of Lagoa Santa, Central-Eastern Brazil

P Da-Gloria, CW Schmidt - Dental wear in evolutionary and biocultural …, 2020 - Elsevier
… This study analyzes the diet of early inhabitants from Lagoa Santa, applying dental microwear
texture analysis (DMTA). We selected 48 individuals with first permanent molars from 8 …

Brief communication: Dental microwear and diet of Homo naledi

PS Ungar, LR Berger - American Journal of Physical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… Here we examine the dental microwear textures of H. naledi, both to reconstruct aspects of
diet of these hominins and to assess the possibility that hard foods (gritty or otherwise) are the …

Dietary niches of terrestrial cercopithecines from the Plio-Pleistocene Shungura Formation, Ethiopia: evidence from dental microwear texture analysis

F Martin, CA Plastiras, G Merceron, A Souron… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
… The inter-specific and temporal variations in the dental microwear textures of these terrestrial
monkeys were compared with enamel stable carbon isotopic data and paleovegetation …

[HTML][HTML] Magnification and resolution in dental microwear analysis using light microscopy

MC Mihlbachler, BL Beatty - 2012 - palaeo-electronica.org
… We differentiate dental microwear analysis from a newer method known as “texture analysis”
(Scott … Here, “dental microwear” refers to the more traditional technique where an observer …

Dental Microwear Analysis: Wear We Are Going, Wear We Have Been

CW Schmidt and, PS Ungar - A Companion to Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… The dentition provides the elements of tooth use as they pertain to oral reduction of food
into digestible elements. In our view, the record of dental microwear provides a fundamental …

Reconstructing diet and behavior in bioarchaeological groups using incisor microwear texture analysis

KL Krueger - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
… is dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), which examines enamel texture signatures
associated with food fracture properties or behavioral regimes. While molar texture signatures …

Dietary abrasiveness is associated with variability of microwear and dental surface texture in rabbits

E Schulz, V Piotrowski, M Clauss, M Mau, G Merceron… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Dental microwear and 3D surface texture analyses are useful … After 25 weeks of exposure to
the diets, dental castings were … using dental microwear and 3D areal surface texture analysis…

Effectiveness of buccal dentalmicrowear texture in African Cercopithecoidea dietary discrimination

LM Martínez, F Estebaranz‐Sánchez… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… -microwear textures and … -dental 3D texture parameters discriminate between Cercopithecoidea
diets. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed significant variation in microwear texture