A new method of tooth mesowear and a test of it on domestic goats

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 111-118

  Solounias, Nikos ^a   Tariq, Muhammad ^b   Hou, Sukuan ^c   Danowitz, Melinda ^a   Harrison, Mary ^a  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; DIET; ENAMEL; FEEDING; GOAT; GRAZING; WEAR; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84897406843     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.051.0212     Document Type: Article

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