Dental microwear and Paleoanthropology: Cautions and possibilities

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402058448, 2007, Pages 345-368

  Teaford, M F ^a  

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

Author keywords

Australopithecines; Confocal microscopy; Dental microwear; Diet; Primates; Scanning electron microscopy; SEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950822243     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5845-5_23     Document Type: Chapter

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