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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"microwear texture analysis"”.
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Taxonomic and Seasonal Variation Among Extant Hyracoids Based on Dental Microwear Texture Analysis
… forms of the order. Here, I analyze the dental microwear of modern hyraxes to assess dietary and ecological relationships among the four extant species of Procaviidae: <em>Heterohyrax brucei</em>, <em>Procavia capensis</em>, <em>Dendrohyrax arboreus</em>, and <em>Dendrohyrax dorsalis</em>. The …
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Analysis of Bone Crushing Behavior of the Dire Wolf (<em>Canis dirus</em>) Using Dental Microwear Texture Analysis.
… gray wolf (<em>C. lupus</em>). Here dental microwear texture analysis of the m2 is used to test the hypothesized dietary behavior of <em>C. dirus</em>. If the m2 does distinguish dietary tendencies and dire wolves were heavy bone consumers, then the microwear signals of <em>C. dirus</em> …
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Effects of Instrumentation on Dental Microwear Textures: Reanalysis and Augmentation of an Early Hominin Sample
<p>Dental microwear texture analysis has been refined to a methodology relying upon scanning confocal microscopy for its advantages of repeatability and standardized quantification. A new instrument, the Plu Neox (Sensofar Corp.) confocal profiler recently entered the market, sparking questions …
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Diet Assessment in Tropical African Populations - the implications of detecting biological signals in current diets to the study of past diets
… in the past, stable isotope ratio and dental microwear analyses are often perceived as the only semi-quantitative and objective techniques. However, there are still many unknowns on how isotopic and microwear signals change in response to dietary variation, because few controlled studies have …