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Microwear Signatures

Microwear Signatures is a taphonomic signature that refers to microscopic surface modifications on material substrates, particularly bone or lithic artifacts, resulting from use-related contact processes, and distinguished from other taphonomic features by their formation through mechanical interactions during human or natural activities.

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132

Experimental Determination of Stone Tool Uses: A Microwear Analysis.

Michael Pitts, Lawrence H. Keeley · Man · 1981 · 648 citations

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Experimentation in the Formation of Edge Damage: A New Approach to Lithic Analysis

Ruth Tringham, G.E. Cooper, George H. Odell et al. · Journal of Field Archaeology · 1974 · 460 citations

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Early hominid diets from quantitative image analysis of dental microwear

Frederick E. Grine, Richard F. Kay · Nature · 1988 · 229 citations

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Dental microwear of European Miocene catarrhines: evidence for diets and tooth use

Peter S. Ungar · Journal of Human Evolution · 1996 · 212 citations

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The Late Miocene paleoenvironment of Afghanistan as inferred from dental microwear in artiodactyls

Gildas Merceron, Cécile Blondel, M. Brunet et al. · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 2004 · 167 citations

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Authors

370

  1. PS
    Peter S. Ungar

    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, United States

    13 publications · 1K citations

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  2. MF
    Mark F. Teaford

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    11 publications · 907 citations

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  3. FR
    Florent Rivals

    Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Spain

    11 publications · 526 citations

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  4. GM
    Gildas Merceron

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    9 publications · 736 citations

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  5. NS
    Nikos Solounias

    New York Institute of Technology, United States

    7 publications · 596 citations

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Institutions

239

  1. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social

    Tarragona, Spain

    14 h-index

    27 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Tarragona, Spain

    13 h-index

    25 publications

    971 citations

  3. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

    Fayetteville, United States

    13 h-index

    23 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    13 h-index

    48 publications

    3.9K citations

  5. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    9 h-index

    12 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

    Barcelona, Spain

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    383 citations

  7. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    928 citations

  8. Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Baltimore, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    796 citations

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  1. Journal of Archaeological Science

    13 publications · 762 citations

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  2. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

    12 publications · 740 citations

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  3. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

    8 publications · 736 citations

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  4. Journal of Human Evolution

    JHE · 8 publications · 845 citations

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  5. Journal of Field Archaeology

    6 publications · 729 citations

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