Dental microwear analysis has been used to investigate weaning practices in past human populations.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent peer-reviewed and academic sources describing dental microwear analysis as a method for studying weaning practices in past populations. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.5 clusters=1 claim_tier=notable] [kind-backfill 2026-09-15: kind=empirical eligibility=high] [harvest 2026-09-23: +3 source(s) on new hosts; tier unverified->gold indep=1.0 clusters=4]
Sources
- Dental microwear (wikipedia)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/microwear-analysis (corroboration)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X1630517X (corroboration)
- https://www.academia.edu/79268085/Investigating_weaning_using_dental_microwear_analysis_A_review (corroboration)
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0280769 (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3868657/ (corroboration)