Dental microwear
Dental microwear results from abrasion between tooth and food and attrition between teeth.
Micrometric traces accumulate continuously and vary significantly according to the function of the dental facet and the composition of the food bolus.
This ecological proxy provides information on the inter-individual, inter-population and inter-specific variability of the diet in the weeks preceding the animal’s death.
References :
Scott, R. S., Ungar, P. S., Bergstrom, T. S., Brown, C. A., Childs, B. E., Teaford, M. F., & Walker, A. (2006). Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations. Journal of human evolution, 51(4), 339-349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.04.006
Calandra, Ivan, and Gildas Merceron. “Dental microwear texture analysis in mammalian ecology.” Mammal Review 46.3 (2016): 215-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12063
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