
Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts
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Key Features
- Covers a wide range of topics, including method and theory, macrowear and microwear in primates, and fossil hominins
- Highlights several recent technological innovations, including occlusal fingerprinting, considerations of enamel mechanical properties, and microwear texture
- Includes case studies from archaeological populations
Readership
Practitioners and Students in anthropology, specifically paleoanthropologists, bioarchaeologists, archaeologists, and primatologists. Supplemental text for courses in Dental Anthropology and Bioarchaeology
Table of Contents
- 1. An Introduction to Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts
2. Dental Macrowear in Catarrhine Primates: Variability Across Species
3. Diet and Cultural Diversity in Neanderthals and Modern Humans from Dental Macrowear Analyses
4. Macrowear and the Mechanical Behavior of Enamel
5. The Interplay of Behavioral and Occlusal Etiologies in Aberrant Dental Wear
6. Deconstructing Non-Carious Cervical Lesion on Teeth in Forensic Contexts
7. Dental Microwear Texture Analysis in Bioarchaeology
8. Dental Microwear Texture Analysis in Deciduous Teeth
9. Stable Carbon Isotope and Molar Microwear Variability of South African Australopiths in Relation to Paleohabitats and Taxonomy
10. Regional Variability in Diet Between Northern European and Mediterranean Neandertals: Evidence from Dental Microwear Texture Analysis
11. Dental Microwear Texture Analyses of the Paleoamericans of Lagoa Santa, Central-Eastern Brazil
Product details
- No. of pages: 290
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: September 9, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128155998
- eBook ISBN: 9780128156001
About the Editors
Christopher Schmidt
Affiliations and Expertise
James Watson
Affiliations and Expertise
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Verner A. Sun Jun 21 2020
Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural ContextsTh
The texts dealing with microwear were excellent. I missed the latest news about macrowear.