microwear

This kind of research is called microwear analysis.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Weird Animals 2002

Now, researchers from Australia and the US have combined radiocarbon dating with a so-called microwear analysis of the teeth of P. goliah to determine what it ate and drank.

Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed 2009

Dental microwear and jaw mechanics in basal Neoceratopsians.

Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009

Dental microwear and jaw mechanics in basal Neoceratopsians.

Archive 2009-01-01 ReBecca Foster 2009

Peter and his colleagues had treated the teeth experimentally with various acids and sediments to see how the microwear pattern might be altered over time.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Excavation directors began inviting her to analyze the microwear on their stone artifacts.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

“The results give tentative support to an earlier analysis on the microwear of the teeth that a non-abrasive diet was being eaten by the individuals tested from Çatalhöyük,” they wrote in their report in On the Surface.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

What Clark did not know was that by the time Ruth came to Berkeley, she was fast losing interest in microwear.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

In the laboratories of the Natural History Museum, Theya and Peter X-rayed the bones and teeth and examined them with a scanning electron microscope for signs of microwear, the tiny marks and scratches that can tell anthropologists what ancient people might have been eating.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

But her microwear work had attracted the attention of Berkeley anthropology professor J.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005