Dental Microwear Texture Analysis
Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is a method that reconstructs diet and dietary behavior from microscopic wear patterns on the surfaces of teeth. Pioneered by Mark Teaford in the 1980s, DMTA analyzes the three-dimensional texture of wear patterns produced as food is chewed. The method reflects short-term (last few months) dietary composition, complementing longer-term dietary information obtained from stable isotope analysis. DMTA has proven powerful for distinguishing diets rich in tough/fibrous foods from those dominated by hard/brittle foods.
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- Teaford, M. F. (1988). A review of dental microwear and diet in modern mammals. Scanning Microscopy, 2(2), 1149-1166. · URL
- Grine, F. E. (1986). Dental evidence for dietary differences in Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Journal of Human Evolution, 15(10), 783-822. · URL
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