Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Section I Context
- Section II Applications in assessing population health
- Section III Applied life and population history
- Section IV Forefront of technique
- 15 Methods of ingestion and incisal designs
- 16 Dental reduction in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hominids: alternative approaches to assessing tooth size
- 17 Dental microwear analysis: historical perspectives and new approaches
- 18 Virtual dentitions: touching the hidden evidence
- Index
- References
17 - Dental microwear analysis: historical perspectives and new approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Section I Context
- Section II Applications in assessing population health
- Section III Applied life and population history
- Section IV Forefront of technique
- 15 Methods of ingestion and incisal designs
- 16 Dental reduction in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hominids: alternative approaches to assessing tooth size
- 17 Dental microwear analysis: historical perspectives and new approaches
- 18 Virtual dentitions: touching the hidden evidence
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Diet is widely recognized as the single most important parameter underlying behavioral and ecological differences among living animals. Bioarchaeologists and paleontologists reconstruct diets of past peoples and extinct animals for what they can teach us about matters ranging from the health status of individuals to adaptations and evolution of species. Dental microwear analysis is among the most effective ways of inferring diets of past peoples and fossil species. This approach involves the study of microscopic patterns of use-wear on teeth and is applicable to a broad range of species, giving a direct record of what an individual ate during its lifetime.
Researchers have recognized for decades that foods with given material properties leave characteristic patterns of scratches and pits in the molar teeth of humans and other animals. Foods requiring distinct types or levels of ingestive behavior also leave characteristic microscopic wear patterns in incisor teeth. Our understandings of relationships between dental microwear and diet/subsistence is improving with each passing year as new methods of analysis are developed and investigators continue to expand the number and variety of samples examined.
In this chapter we summarize one new method, dental microwear texture analysis, and offer some new data to illustrate the potential of this approach. We also briefly review some of the seminal microwear studies conducted over the past half century that put this and other work into historical context.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology , pp. 389 - 425Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008
References
(1996). Microwear on canines and killing behavior in large carnivores: saber function in Smilodon fatalis. Journal of Mammology, 77, 1059–67CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barrett, P. M. (2006). Tooth wear and possible jaw action of Scelidosaurus harrisonii Owen and a review of feeding mechanisms in other thyreophoran dinosaurs. In The Armored Dinosaurs, ed. . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 25–52Google Scholar
(1986). Dental function and diet in the Carpolestidae (Primates, Plesiadapiformes). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 71, 157–71CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and (1989). Reconstruction of Mesolithic diet using dental microwear and trace element analysis: the case of Grotta dell'Uzzo (Sicily). In People and Culture in Change, ed. . Oxford: BAR International Series, pp. 283–320Google Scholar
and (1991). New confocal LM method for studying local relative microrelief with special references to wear studies. Scanning, 13, 429–30CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brotoisworo, E. and Dirgayusa, I. W. A. (1991). Ranging and feeding behavior of Presbytis cristata in the Pangandaran Nature Reserve, West Java. In Primatology Today, ed. , , , and . Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, pp. 115–18Google Scholar
(1991). Deciduous dental microwear of prehistoric juveniles from the lower Illinois River Valley. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 84, 59–73CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (1994). Dental microwear differs by capture site in live-caught Alouatta from Costa Rica. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 18, 62Google Scholar
(1952). The milk molars of Perissodactyla, with remarks on molar occlusion. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 121, 777–817CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2001). Microwear analysis of Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) molar from Campo del Conte (Frosinone, Italy). In The World of Elephants – International Congress, Rome 2001, pp. 529–33Google Scholar
(1968). Group composition, ecology and daily activities of free living mangabeys in Uganda. Folia Primatologica, 8, 247–62CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (1981). Rank transformations as a bridge between parametric and nonparametric statistics. American Statistician, 35, 124–9Google Scholar
and (1996). Multiplicity considerations in the design and analysis of clinical trials. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 159, 93–110CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1981). Dental microwear and diet – implications for determining the feeding behaviors of extinct primates, with a comment on the dietary pattern of Sivapithecus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 55, 331–6CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (1998). The mechanics of food reduction in Tarsius bancanus: hard-object feeder, soft-object feeder or both? Folia Primatologica, 69, 41–59CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (1994). Bamboo feeding, dental microwear, and diet of the Pleistocene ape Gigantopithecus blacki. South African Journal of Science, 90, 527–32Google Scholar
and (1999). Terrestrial foraging and dental microwear in Papio ursinus. Primates, 40, 559–72CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1962). Etude microscopique de l'abrasion et de l'attrition sur la surface des dents. Bulletin du Groupement International Pour la Recherche Scientifique En Stomatologie, 5, 242–51Google Scholar
and (1998). Human dental microwear caused by calcium oxalate phytoliths in prehistoric diet of the lower Pecos region, Texas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 107, 297–3043.0.CO;2-M>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (1996). Premaxillary shape as an indicator of the diet of seven extinct late Cenozoic new world camels. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16, 141–8CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , et al. (2002). Western lowland gorilla diet and resource availability: new evidence, cross-site comparisons, and reflections on indirect sampling methods. American Journal of Primatology, 58, 91–116CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , , and (2006). Molar microwear and dietary reconstruction of fossil Cercopithecoidea from the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 51, 297–319Google Scholar
(1984). Resource use by howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata). International Journal of Primatology, 5, 105–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , et al. (2001). Isotope and microwear analyses on teeth of late Middle Pleistocene Elephas antiquus from the Rome area (La Polledrara, Casal de' Pazzi). In The World of Elephants – International Congress, Rome 2001, pp. 534–9Google Scholar
and (1981). Buccal surface wear of human premolar and molar teeth: a potential indicator of dietary and social differentiation. Journal of Human Evolution, 10, 335–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fiorillo, A. (1991). Dental microwear on the teeth of Camarasaurus and Diplodocus: implications for sauropod paleoecology. In Fifth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, ed. , , and . Paleontological Museum, University of Oslo, pp. 23–4Google Scholar
(1998). Dental microwear patterns of the sauropod dinosaurs, Camarasaurus and Diplodocus: evidence for resource partitioning in the Late Jurassic of North America. Historical Biology, 13, 16CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (2004). Comparative dietary evaluations of an extinct giraffid (Sivatherium hendeyi) (Mammalia, Giraffidae, Sivatheriinae) from Langebaanweg, South Africa (early Pliocene). Geodiversitas, 26, 675–85Google Scholar
, , and (2005). Dental microwear variability on buccal tooth enamel surfaces of extant catarrhini and the Miocene fossil Dryopithecus laietanus (Hominoidea). Folia Primatologica, 76, 325–41CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1995). Nombre, densité et dimensions des micro-traces d'usure dentaire chez des populations ancienne et actuelles du Nord du Maroc. Bulletin de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, N.S.O. 7, 159–76CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , et al. (2004). Dental use wear in extinct lemurs: evidence of diet and niche differentiation. Journal of Human Evolution, 47, 145–69CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , et al. (2005a). Dental use wear in extinct lemurs: evidence of diet and niche differentiationJournal of Human Evolution, 49, 662–3Google Scholar
, , et al. (2005b). New insights into old lemurs: the trophic adaptations of the Archaeolemuridae. International Journal of Primatology, 26, 825–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1982). A study of microwear on chimpanzee molars: implications for dental microwear analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 59, 195–215CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1984). Hominoid dental microwear: complications in the use of microwear analysis to detect diet. Journal of Dental Research 63, 1043–6CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1988). A review of methodology and quantification in dental microwear analysis. Scanning Microscopy, 2, 1139–47Google ScholarPubMed
and (1983). Playing “possum”: a microwear experiment. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 60, 109–12CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , , and (2005). Dental microwear in triassic amniotes: implications for paleoecology and masticatory mechanics. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25, 320–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (2005). Reconstructing the palaeodiet of Florida Mammut americanum via low-magnification stereo microscopy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 223, 34–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1977). Analysis of early hominid deciduous molar wear by scanning electron microscopy: a preliminary report. Proceedings of the Electron Microscopy, Society of South Africa, 7, 157–8Google Scholar
(1981). Trophic differences between “gracile” and “robust” australopithecines: a scanning electron microcope analysis of occlusal events. South African Journal of Science, 77, 203–30Google Scholar
(1986). Dental evidence for dietary differences in Australopithecus and Paranthropus – a quantitative-analysis of permanent molar microwear. Journal of Human Evolution, 15, 783–822CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1987). Quantitative analysis of occlusal microwear in Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Scanning Microscopy, 1, 647–56Google ScholarPubMed
, , and (2002). Error rates in dental microwear quantification using scanning electron microscopy. Scanning, 24, 144–53Google ScholarPubMed
, , , and (2006). Molar microwear in Praeanthropus afarensis: evidence for dietary stasis through time and under diverse paleoecological conditions. Journal of Human Evolution (in press)CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (2001). Simulation of dental microwear: characteristic traces by opal phytoliths give clues to ancient human dietary behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 114, 124–383.0.CO;2-S>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (1998). Evidence of paleoenvironmental change from muskrat dental microwear patterns. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 15, 107–8Google Scholar
Harmon, A. M. and Rose, J. C. (1988). The role of dental microwear analysis in the reconstruction of prehistoric diet. In Diet and Subsistence: Current Archaeological Perspectives, ed. , and . Calgary: Archaeolgoical Association of the University of Calgary, pp. 267–72Google Scholar
, , , and (1991). Preliminary studies of hipparionine horse diet as measured by tooth microwear. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 28, 187–200Google Scholar
(1989). Dietary differences and microwear on the teeth of late stone age and early modern people from western Japan. Scanning Microscopy, 3, 623–8Google Scholar
, , and (2006). Palaeoenvironments and palaeodiets of mid-Pliocene micromammals from Makapansgat Limeworks, South Africa: a stable isotope and dental microwear approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, 233, 235–51CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1994). Comparative dental occlusal morphology, facet development, and microwear in two sympatric species of Listriodon (Mammalia, Suidae) from the Middle Miocene of Western Anatolia (Turkey). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 14, 105–26CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1981). Miocene lorisid primates from the Pakistan Siwaliks. Nature, 289, 585–7CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1974). Influence of interobserver measurement error on multivariate population comparisons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 40, 141Google Scholar
(2003). The dietary regimes of two contemporaneous populations of Hippotherium primigenium (Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Vallesian (Upper Miocene) of Southern Germany. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, 198, 381–402CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , and (2003). New interpretations of the systematics and palaeoecology of the Dorn Dürkheim 1 hipparions (Late Miocene, Turolian Age [MN11]), Rheinhessen, Germany. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 83, 103–33CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1987). Analysis of primate dental microwear using image processing techniques. Scanning Microscopy, 1, 657–62Google ScholarPubMed
and (1983). True grit: a microwear experiment. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 61, 33–8CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kay, R. F. and Covert, H. H. (1984). Anatomy and behavior of extinct primates. In Food Acquisition and Processing in Primates, ed. , , & , pp. 467–508. New York: Plenum PressCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kelley, J. (1986). Paleobiology of Miocene hominoids. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University
(1990). Incisor microwear and diet in three species of Colobus. Folia Primatologica, 55, 73–84CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
King, T. (2001). Dental microwear and diet in Eurasian Miocene catarrhines. In Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates in Europe, ed. , , and . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 102–17CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (1999a). Dental microwear of Griphopithecus alpani. Journal of Human Evolution, 36, 3–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (1999b). Effect of taphonomic processes on dental microwear. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 108, 359–733.0.CO;2-9>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1982). Jaw movement, dental function, and diet in the Paleocene multituberculate Ptilodus. Paleobiology, 8, 265–81CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kuroda, S. (1992). Ecological interspecies relationships between gorillas and chimpanzees in the Ndoki-Nouabale Reserve, Northern Congo. In Topics in Primatology, Volume 2, Behavior, Ecology and Conservation., ed. , , , and . Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, pp. 385–94Google Scholar
, , , and (2004). Hardness of cercopithecine foods: implications for the critical function of enamel thickness in exploiting fallback foods. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 125, 363–8CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , et al. (2001). Frontiers of contact: bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida. Journal of World Prehistory, 15, 69–123CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leakey, M. G., Teaford, M. F., and Ward, C. V. (2003). Cercopithecidae from Lothagam. In Lothagam, ed. and . New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 130–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (2000). Ondatra zibethicus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) dental microwear patterns as a potential tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Journal of Archaeological Science, 27, 789–98CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lucas, P. W. and Teaford, M. F. (1994). Functional morphology of colobine teeth. In Colobine Monkeys: Their Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution, ed. and . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 173–203Google Scholar
and (1988). Activity-induced patterns of dental abrasion in prehistoric Pakistan: evidence from Mehrgarh and Harappa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 76, 377–98CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1991). Enamel structure and microwear: an experimental study of the response of enamel to shearing force. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 85, 31–49CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (1999). Ancient diets, ecology, and extinction of 5-million-year-old horses from Florida. Science, 283, 824–7CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(2006a). Brief communication: intertooth and intrafacet dental microwear variation in an archaeological sample of modern humans from the Jordan Valley. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 129, 39–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2006b). Dental microwear from Natufian hunter-gatherers and Early Neolithic farmers: comparisons within and between samples. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 130, 308–19CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2006c). Microwear and morphology: functional relationships between human dental microwear and the mandible. Journal of Human Evolution, 50, 452–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1998). Dental microwear and diet in domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and goats (Capra hircus): distinguishing grazing and fodder-fed ovicaprids using a quantitative analytical approach. Journal of Archaeological Science, 25, 1259–71CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2000). A dental microwear study of seaweed-eating and grazing sheep from Orkney. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 10, 93–1073.0.CO;2-U>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2003). Dental microwear in grazing and browsing Gotland sheep (Ovis aries) and its implications for dietary reconstruction. Journal of Archaeological Science, 30, 1513–27CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2006). Pastures lost? A dental microwear study of ovicaprine diet and management in Norse Greenland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33, 238–52CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Merceron, G. (2003a). Dental microwear analysis of primates and ungulates from the late Miocene of eastern Mediterranean: paleobiological and paleoenvironmental implications. Ph.D. Thesis University of Poitiers, France
(2003b). Une nouvelle méthodologie pour la quantification de la micro-usure dentaire: application à l'hominoïde fossile Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Miocène, Grèce). Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 15, 300–1Google Scholar
, , et al. (2004a). The Late Miocene paleoenvironment of Afghanistan as inferred from dental microwear in artiodactyls. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, 207, 143–63CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , and (2005a). A new method of dental microwear analysis: application to extant primates and Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Late Miocene of Greece). Palaios, 20, 551–61CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and (2005b). Dental microwear of fossil bovids from northern Greece: paleoenvironmental conditions in the eastern Mediterranean during the Messinian. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, 217, 173–85CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (2006). Molar microwear pattern and palaeoecology of ungulates from La Berbie (Dordogne, France): environment of Neanderthals and modern human populations of the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic. Boreas, 35, 272–8CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , and (2006). Dietary characterization of the hominoid Khoratpithecus (Miocene of Thailand): evidence from dental topographic and microwear texture analyses. Naturwissenschaften, 93, 329–33CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (2005). Dental microwear and palaeoecology of bovids from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, Western Cape province, South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 101, 365–70Google Scholar
, , and (2004b). Tooth microwear pattern in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus, L.) from Chize (Western France) and relation to food composition. Small Ruminant Research, 53, 125–32CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , and (2003). Nonalimentary tooth use in prehistory: an example from early Holocene in Central Sahara (Uan Muhuggiag, Tadrart Acacus, Libya). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 120, 225–32CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1991). Dental evidence for dietary change at Abu Hureyra. Journal of Archaeological Science, 18, 525–39CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (1993). Dietary change and the effects of food preparation on microwear patterns in the Late Neolithic of Abu Hureyra, Northern Syria. Journal of Human Evolution, 24, 455–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Muendel, M. G. (1997). Dental microwear analysis of Averbuch: a dietary reconstruction of a Mississippian culture. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Tennessee
, , and (2005). Microwear in modern squirrels in relation to diet. Palaeontologia Electronica, 8, Art. No. 14AGoogle Scholar
, , and (2004). Dental microwear in anubis and hybrid baboons (Papio hamadryas, sensu lato) living in Awash National Park, Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 125, 279–91CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (1992). Dental microwear and diet of Mesonychids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 12, 45AGoogle Scholar
(2001). Micro-desgaste dentário em alguns Dasypodidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra). Acta Biologica Leopoldensia, 23, 83–91Google Scholar
, , , and (2006a). Do mandibular cross-sectional properties and dental microwear give similar dietary signals? American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 130, 501–7CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (2006b). Dietary inferences from dental occlusal microwear at Mission San Luis de Apalachee. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 128, 801–11CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , et al. (2005). Coupling tooth microwear and stable isotope analyses for palaeodiet reconstruction: the case study of late Middle Pleistocene Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus teeth from Central Italy (Rome area). Quaternary International, 126–8, 153–70CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pastor, R. F. (1993). Dental microwear among prehistoric inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent: a quantitative and comparative analysis. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Oregon
Pastor, R. F. and Johnson, T. L. (1992). Dental microwear and attrition. In Human Skeletal Remains from Mahadaha: A Gangetic Mesolithic Site, ed. . Ithaca: Cornell University, pp. 271–304Google Scholar
, , and (1995). Method for collecting and analyzing airborne abrasive particles from neotropical forests. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Suppl. 20, 168Google Scholar
, , and (1999). Nonocclusal dental microwear analysis of 300 000-year-old Homo heidelbergensis teeth from Sima de los Huesos (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 108, 433–573.0.CO;2-5>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , and (2003). Non-occlusal dental microwear variability in a sample of Middle and Late Pleistocene human populations from Europe and the Near East. Journal of Human Evolution, 44, 497–513CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (1994). Intraindividual and intragroup variability of buccal tooth striation pattern. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 94, 175–87CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1982). Electron-optical microscopic study of incipient dental microdamage from experimental seed and bone crushing. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 57, 283–301CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1979). Diet of early man – evidence from abrasion of teeth and tools. Current Anthropology, 20, 590–2CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1986). Australopithecus afarensis Garusi-1, variability and specialization of early hominids in their masticatory apparatus. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Serie II, 303, 1819Google Scholar
and (1984). Dental microwear and mechanisms in early hominids from Laetoli and Hadar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 65, 87–91CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (1983a). Tooth microwear and dietary patterns in early hominids from Laetoli, Hadar and Olduvai. Journal of Human Evolution, 12, 721–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (1986). Reconstruction of the maxillary dental arcade of Garusi Hominid 1. Journal of Human Evolution, 15, 325–32CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1979). Mechanical process of dental wearing down by abrasion, reproduced by experimentation and applied to fossil man and his paleoecological surroundings. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences Serie D, 289, 895Google Scholar
, , and (1981). Mechanical process of dental surface alteration by non-abrasive and non-adhesive friction, reproduced by experimentation and applied to the diet of early man. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Serie II, 293, 729–34Google Scholar
, , and (1983b). Tooth wear as observed in ancient Egyptian skulls. Journal of Human Evolution, 12, 617–29CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1995). Microwear on conodont elements and macrophagy in the first vertebrates. Nature, 374, 798–800CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and (2006). Quantitative analysis of dental microwear in threespine stickleback: a new approach to analysis of trophic ecology in aquatic vertebrates. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75, 967–77CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (2002). Molar microwear of subfossil lemurs: improving the resolution of dietary inferences. Journal of Human Evolution, 43, 645–57CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (2005). Pervasiveness of phytoliths in prehistoric southwestern diet and implications for regional and temporal trends for dental microwear. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32, 981–8CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rensberger, J. M. (1978). Scanning electron microscopy, of wear and occlusal events in some small herbivores. In Development, Function, and Evolution of Teeth, ed. and . New York: Academic Press, pp. 415–38Google Scholar
and (2003). Dental microwear analysis for investigating the diet of an argali population (Ovis ammon antiqua) of mid-Pleistocene age, Caune de I'Arago cave, eastern Pyrenees, France. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, 193, 443–55CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (2006). A comparison of the dietary habits of a large sample of the Pleistocene pronghorn Stockoceros onusrosagris from the Papago Springs Cave in Arizona to the modernAntilocapra americana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26, 495–500CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1990). A comparison of tooth microwear between an extinct marsupial predator, the Tasmanian tiger Thylacinus cynocephalus (Thylacinidae) and an extant scavenger, the Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Zoology, 37, 575–89CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rodman, P. S. (1977). Feeding behaviour of orangutans of the Kutai Nature Reserve, East Kalimantan. In Primate Ecology: Studies of Feeding and Ranging Behaviour in Lemurs, Monkeys and Apes, ed. . London: Academic Press, pp. 383–413Google Scholar
Rose, J. C. and Ungar, P. S. (1998). Gross wear and dental microwear in historical perspective. In Dental Anthropology: Fundamentals, Limits, Prospects, ed. , , and . Stuttgart: Gustav-Fischer, pp. 349–86CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1985). Bioarcheology of the Alexander Site. In The Alexander Site, ed. Arkansas Archeological Survey. Fayetteville, AR: Arkansas Archeological Survey, pp. 76–98Google Scholar
(1979). Wear striation direction on primate teeth – scanning electron microscope examination. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 50, 155–67CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ryan, A. S. (1980a). Anterior dental microwear in hominid evolution: comparisons with human and nonhuman primates. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan
(1980b). Anterior dental microwear in Neanderthals. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 52, 274Google Scholar
(1981). Anterior dental microwear and its relationhips to diet and feeding behavior in three African primates (Pan troglodytes troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, and Papio hamadryas). Primates, 22, 533–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1989). Anterior dental microwear in Australopithecus afarensis: comparisons with human and nonhuman primates. Journal of Human Evolution, 18, 235–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rybczynski, N. and Vickaryous, M. K. (2006). Evidence of complex jaw movement in the Late Cretaceous ankylosaurid Euoplocephalus tutus (Dinosauria: Thyreophora). In The Armored Dinosaurs, ed. . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 299–317Google Scholar
(2001). Dental microwear evidence for a dietary shift between two nonmaize-reliant prehistoric human populations from Indiana. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 114, 139–453.0.CO;2-9>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (2005). Wear facets and enamel spalling in tyrannosaurid dinosaurs. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 50, 93–9Google Scholar
, , , and (2007). Microwear evidence for Plio-Pleistocene bovid diets from Makapansgat Limeworks Cave, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatololgy, and Palaeoecology, 241, 301–19Google Scholar
, , et al. (2006). Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations. Journal of Human Evolution, 51, 339–49CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , , , , , and (2005). Dental microwear texture analysis reflects diets of living primates and fossil hominins. Nature, 436, 693–5CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (2004a). The diets of the dromomerycidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) and their response to Miocene vegetational change. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24, 427–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , and (2004b). Can low-magnification stereo microscopy reveal diet? Journal of Human Evolution, 47, 115–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , and (2005). [Erratum] Can low-magnification stereo microscopy reveal diet? Journal of Human Evolution, 49, 662–3CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (2002). The diet of worms: an analysis of mole dental microwear. Journal of Mammology, 83, 804–142.0.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1993). New methods of tooth microwear analysis and application to dietary determination of two extinct antelopes. Journal of Zoology, 229, 421–45CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1992a). Dietary adaptations of two goat ancestors and evolutionary considerations. Geobios, 25, 797–809CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1992b). Tooth microwear analysis of Eotragus sansaniensis (Mammalia: Ruminantia), one of the oldest known bovids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 12, 113–21CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1993). Tooth microwear and premaxillary shape of an archaic antelope. Lethaia, 26, 261–8CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1994). Dietary differences between two archaic ruminant species from Sansan, France. Historical Biology, 7, 203–20CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (2002). Advances in the reconstruction of ungulate ecomorphology with application to early fossil equids. American Museum Novitiates (3366) 1–49Google Scholar
, , and (1988). Interpreting the diet of extinct ruminants: the case of a non-browsing giraffid. Paleobiology, 14, 287–300CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Strait, S. G. (1991). Dietary reconstruction in small-bodied fossil primates. Ph.D. Thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook
(1993). Molar microwear in extant small-bodied faunivorous mammals: an analysis of feature density and pit frequency. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 92, 63–79CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1997). Tooth use and the physical properties of food. Evolutionary Anthropology, 5, 199–2113.0.CO;2-8>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1983a). Differences in molar wear gradient between adult macaques and langurs. International Journal of Primatology, 4, 427–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1983b). The morphology and wear of the lingual notch in macaques and langurs. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 60, 7–14CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1985). Molar microwear and diet in the genusCebus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 66, 363–70CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Teaford, M. F. (1986). Dental microwear and diet in two species of Colobus. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International Primatological Conference. Volume 2: Primate Ecology and Conservation, ed. and . Cambridge: Cambridge University, pp. 63–6Google Scholar
(1988a). A review of dental microwear and diet in modern mammals. Scanning Microscopy, 2, 1149–66Google Scholar
(1988b). Scanning electron microscope diagnosis of wear patterns versus artifacts on fossil teeth. Scanning Microscopy, 2, 1167–75Google Scholar
Teaford, M. F. (1993). Dental microwear and diet in extant and extinct Theropithecus: preliminary analyses. In Theropithecus: The Life and Death of a Primate Genus, ed. . Cambridge: Cambridge University, pp. 331–49CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Teaford, M. F. (2006). What do we know and not know about dental microwear and diet? In Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable, ed. . New York: Oxford University Press, 106–31Google Scholar
Teaford, M. F. (2007). Dental microwear and paleoanthropology: cautions and possibilities. In Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution, ed. and , Springer, in pressGoogle Scholar
and (1991). Dental microwear in live, wild-trapped Alouatta palliata from Costa Rica. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 85, 313–19CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Teaford, M. F. and Glander, K. E. (1996). Dental microwear and diet in a wild population of mantled howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). In Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates, ed. , , and . New York: Plenum Press, pp. 433–49CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Teaford, M. F., Larsen, C. S., Pastor, R. F., and Noble, V. E. (2001). Dental microwear and diet in La Florida. In Bioarchaeology of La Florida, ed. . Gainesville: University of Florida, pp. 82–112Google Scholar
and (1992). Dental microwear and diet in Plio Pleistocene cercopithecoids from Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Suppl. 14, 160Google Scholar
, , , and (2006). Mechanical defenses in leaves eaten by Costa Rican Alouatta palliata. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 129, 99–104CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (1996). Brief communication: diet-induced changes in rates of human tooth microwear: a case study involving stone-ground maize. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 100, 143–73.0.CO;2-0>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (1996). Dental microwear and microstructure in early Oligocene primates from the Fayum, Egypt: implications for diet. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 101, 527–433.0.CO;2-S>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (1989). Seasonal or ecological differences in diet and molar microwear in Cebus nigrivittatus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 80, 391–401CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Teaford, M. F. and Ungar, P. S. (2006). Dental adaptations of African apes. In Handbook of Paleoanthropology. Volume 1: Principles, Methods, and Approaches, ed. , , and . Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, in pressGoogle Scholar
Teaford, M. F., Ungar, P. S., and Grine, F. E. (2007). Dental microwear and hominin paleoecology. In Early Hominin Paleoecology, ed. , , , and . Boulder: University of Colorado Press, in pressGoogle Scholar
and (1984). Quantitative differences in dental microwear between primate species with different diets and a comment on the presumed diet of Sivapithecus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 64, 191–200CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1985). Foods consumed by sympatric populations of Gorilla g. gorilla and Pan t. troglodytes in Gabon: some preliminary data. International Journal of Primatology, 6, 27–43CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and (1991). A case study of a plant-animal relationship – Cola-Lizae and lowland gorillas in the Lope Reserve, Gabon. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 7, 181–99CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1990). Incisor microwear and feeding behavior in Alouatta seniculus and Cebus olivaceus. American Journal of Primatology, 20, 43–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1992). Dental evidence for diet in primates. Anthropolologiai Közlemények, 34, 141–55Google Scholar
(1994). Incisor microwear of Sumatran anthropoid primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 94, 339–63CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1995). A semiautomated image analysis procedure for the quantification of dental microwear. 2. Scanning, 17, 57–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1996). Dental microwear of European Miocene catarrhines: evidence for diets and tooth use. Journal of Human Evolution, 31, 335–66CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1998). Dental allometry, morphology, and wear as evidence for diet in fossil primates. Evolutionary Anthropology, 6, 205–173.0.CO;2-9>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and (2003). Quantification of dental microwear by tandem scanning confocal microscopy, and scale sensitive fractal analyses. Scanning, 25, 185–93CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and (1991). Incisor size and wear in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. Journal of Human Evolution, 20, 313–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (2006). Diet in early Homo: a review of the evidence and a new model of adaptive versatility. Annual Review of Anthropology, 35, in pressCrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and (2005). Dental microwear and diets of African early Homo. Journal of Human Evolution, 50, 78–95CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (1991). A Semiautomated Image Analysis Procedure for the Quantification of Dental Microwear. Scanning, 13, 31–6CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1999). Incisor microwear, diet, and tooth use in three Amerindian populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 109, 387–963.0.CO;2-F>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, and (1996). Preliminary examination of non-occlusal dental microwear in anthropoids: implications for the study of fossil primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 100, 101–133.0.CO;2-4>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and (1995). Dust accumulation in the canopy: a potential cause of dental microwear in primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 97, 93–9CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (2004). Molar microwear and shearing crest development in Miocene catarrhines. Anthropologie (Brno), 42, 21–35Google Scholar
, , and (1990). Molar microwear and diet in large carnivores: inferences concerning diet in the sabretooth cat, Smilodon fatalis. Journal of Zoology, 222, 319–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1981). Diet and teeth. Dietary hypotheses and human evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B, Biological Science, 292, 57–64CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (1978). Microwear of mammalian teeth as an indicator of diet. Science, 201, 908–10CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1989). Inferences from quantitative analysis of dental microwear. Folia Primatologica, 53, 177–89CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and (1994). Enamel microwear differences between species of Proconsul from the early Miocene of Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Suppl. 18, 202–3Google Scholar
(1976). Wear striations on the incisors of cercopithecoid monkeys as an index of diet and habitat preference. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 45, 299–308CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (1987). An image processing system for the quantitative analysis of dental microwear. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 72, 267Google Scholar
and (1994). A topographical approach to dental microwear analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Suppl. 18, 203Google Scholar
and (1999). Microwear in modern rooting and stall fed pigs: the potential of dental microwear analysis for exploring pig diet and management in the past. Environmental Archaeology, 4, 25–32CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and (1990). Composition of the diet of lowland gorillas at Lope in Gabon. American Journal of Primatology, 21, 265–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (1986). Wear and microwear on the teeth of a moose (Alces alces) population in Manitoba, Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 64, 2467–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and (1987a). Microwear on the molar teeth of the Koala Phascolarctos cinereus. Journal of Dental Research 66, 828Google Scholar
, , and (1987b). Tooth wear and enamel structure in the mandibular incisors of six species of kangaroo (Marsupiala: Macropodinae). Delivered at the De Vis Symposium, Queensland Museum, AustraliaGoogle Scholar
- 30
- Cited by