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. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 claim_tier=everyday]
Sources
- Dental microwear (wikipedia)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735535/ (corroboration)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248406000741 (corroboration)
- https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2012-issue-1-articles/195-microwear-observer-error (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12926610/ (corroboration)