Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Human Dental Buccal Microwear and Paleodiet Reconstruction
AU  - Alrousan M
Y1  - 2016
VL  - 54
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 305
EP  - 315
KW  - Dental J Buccal J Microwear J Paleodiet
N2  - 
N2  - Researches on the pattern of buccal dental microwear (striations) in a relation to diet and dietary habits
have been solidified after the year 1980. The density of striations, orientation, and length are discriminate variables
in reconstructing paleodiet. Populations who depended, more on meat consumption tended to have a lower density of
striations with a higher percentage of vertical striations. On the other hand, individuals who depended on more plant
consumption tended to have higher density of striations with more horizontal ones. In contrast to occlusal dental
microwear, buccal microwear is practically a proxy for the lifetime diet of an individual without any effect of nonmasticatory
factors, and thus can be used to construct diet, dietary behavior, climatic fluctuations, and maybe to
estimate the age at death and sex. By comparing buccal dental microwear to the other techniques used in reconstructing
paleodiet, the technique is reliable and shows a great potential in dietary reconstructions.
ER  -