Early dental microwear data collection methods involved using a microscope to manually record individual microwear features.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent scholarly sources describing manual microscopy-based counting of pits and scratches as the early standard method in dental microwear analysis.
Sources
- Dental microwear (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735535/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248406000741 (sciencedirect.com)
- https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2012-issue-1-articles/195-microwear-observer-error (palaeo-electronica.org)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12926610/ (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)