Consuming hard foods can produce distinctive dental microwear patterns.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple peer-reviewed sources (PNAS, PubMed, MicroWeaR study) showing hard foods cause pitting and tough foods cause scratching on dental surfaces; well-established in paleoanthropology and dental microwear research. [tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Dental microwear (wikipedia)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6065344/ (corroboration)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1509491112 (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19902458/ (corroboration)