• DOI:10.1038/nature03822
Corpus ID: 4431062

Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins

@article{Scott2005DentalMT,
  title={Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins},
  author={R. S. Scott and P. Ungar and Torbjorn S. Bergstrom and C. A. Brown and F. Grine and M. Teaford and A. Walker},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2005},
  volume={436},
  pages={693-695}
}

R. S. Scott, P. Ungar, +4 authors A. Walker

Published 2005

Medicine, Geography

Nature

Reconstructing the diets of extinct hominins is essential to understanding the paleobiology and evolutionary history of our lineage. Dental microwear, the study of microscopic tooth-wear resulting from use, provides direct evidence of what an individual ate in the past. Unfortunately, established methods of studying microwear are plagued with low repeatability and high observer error. Here we apply an objective, repeatable approach for studying three-dimensional microwear surface texture to… CONTINUE READING

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