Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts

Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts provides a single source for disseminating the current state-of-the-art research regarding dental wear across a variety of hominoid species under a number of temporal and spatial contexts. The volume begins with a brief introductory chapter addressing the general history, understandings and approaches to the study of dental wear. Remaining chapters cover dental macrowear and dental microwear. Students and professionals in anthropology, specifically paleoanthropologists, bioarcheologists, archaeologists, and primatologists will find this book to be a valuable resource. In addition, it is a helpful guide for dentists and other dental professionals interested in dental function.

Covers a wide range of topics, including method and theory, macrowear and microwear in primates, and fossil homininsHighlights several recent technological innovations, including occlusal fingerprinting, considerations of enamel mechanical properties, and microwear textureIncludes case studies from archaeological populations

1. An Introduction to Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts
2. Dental Macrowear in Catarrhine Primates: Variability Across Species
3. Diet and Cultural Diversity in Neanderthals and Modern Humans from Dental Macrowear Analyses
4. Macrowear and the Mechanical Behavior of Enamel
5. The Interplay of Behavioral and Occlusal Etiologies in Aberrant Dental Wear
6. Deconstructing Non-Carious Cervical Lesion on Teeth in Forensic Contexts
7. Dental Microwear Texture Analysis in Bioarchaeology
8. Dental Microwear Texture Analysis in Deciduous Teeth
9. Stable Carbon Isotope and Molar Microwear Variability of South African Australopiths in Relation to Paleohabitats and Taxonomy
10. Regional Variability in Diet Between Northern European and Mediterranean Neandertals: Evidence from Dental Microwear Texture Analysis
11. Dental Microwear Texture Analyses of the Paleoamericans of Lagoa Santa, Central-Eastern Brazil