Dental microwear textural analysis as an analytical tool to depict individual traits and reconstruct the diet of a primate.
Alice M PercherGildas MerceronGontran Nsi AkoueJordi GalbanyAlejandro RomeroMarie J E CharpentierPublished in: American journal of physical anthropology (2017)
Considering the interplay between the tested variables and both dental microwear and diet, we reaffirm that food physical properties play a major role in microwear variations. These results suggest that DMTA parameters may provide valuable hints for paleoecological reconstruction using fragmentary fossil dental remains.