MicroWeaR: A new R package for dental microwear analysis
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4222
Abstract: Abstract Mastication of dietary items with different mechanical properties leaves distinctive microscopic marks on the surface of tooth enamel. The inspection of such marks (dental microwear analysis) is informative about the dietary habitus in fossil… read more here.
Keywords: dental microwear; microscopic marks; microwear analysis; new package ... See more keywords
Lawrence H. Keeley's contributions to the use of microwear analysis in reconstructions of past human behavior (1972–2017)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101937
Abstract: Abstract While a doctoral student at Oxford University in the early 1970s, Lawrence H. Keeley refined the high powered technique for microwear analysis. When the results of his “blind test” with Mark Newcomer were published,… read more here.
Keywords: analysis; microwear analysis; lawrence keeley; keeley ... See more keywords