Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 339-349

  Scott, Robert S ^a   Ungar, Peter S ^a   Bergstrom, Torbjorn S ^b   Brown, Christopher A ^b   Childs, Benjamin E ^b   Teaford, Mark F ^c   Walker, Alan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Microwear; Scale sensitive fractal analysis; Texture; White light confocal microscope

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HOMINID; IMAGING METHOD; NEANDERTHAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS APELLA; CERCOCEBUS; LOPHOCEBUS ALBIGENA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33749059392     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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