Alejandro Romero
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Romero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Romero |
| SIGNATURE | ROMERO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alicante |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5483-4973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dental evidence of textile-related task activities in the Bronze Age site of Laderas del Castillo (Alicante, Spain)
Scanning microscopy identifies extra-masticatory anterior tooth wear at an Argaric site. • DNA-based methods determined a female sexual attribution. • Plant fibers found in dental calculus confirm a female textile craft specialization. The burial 7 from the Argaric site of Laderas del Castillo (Alicante, Spain), dating from the 2nd millennium BC, included a skeleton associated with a carinated vessel indicative of social recognition. Anthropologi…
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: A New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations
Assessing age through dentin exposure often leads to underestimated age due to assumptions of constant molar wear rate. New methods for age-related dentin exposure accrual could facilitate cross-population comparisons independent of dietary habits and sociocultural strategies. We analyzed 3D dentin exposure surfaces in four Chinese archaeological samples to reveal variations in dentin exposure rates linked to socioeconomic practices. Linear regre…
Tooth dimensions and body size in a Pygmy population
Background: The relationship between tooth size and stature has been analysed extensively at the interspecies level but has received less attention at the intraspecies level. The relationship between these two parameters does not seem to be the same among modern human populations. Aim: The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between tooth dimensions and body measurements in the Baka Pygmies. Subjects and methods: Height, weight, and …
Correlations among dietary proxies in African fossil hominins: Dental buccal microwear, occlusal textures and 13C stable isotope
Dental microwear textural analysis as an analytical tool to depict individual traits and reconstruct the diet of a primate
Considering the interplay between the tested variables and both dental microwear and diet, we reaffirm that food physical properties play a major role in microwear variations. These results suggest that DMTA parameters may provide valuable hints for paleoecological reconstruction using fragmentary fossil dental remains
Buccal dental microwear texture and catarrhine diets
OBJECTIVES: Two-dimensional dental microwear analyses on occlusal and nonocclusal enamel surfaces have been widely applied to reconstruct the feeding behaviors of extant primates and to infer ecological adaptations in fossil hominins. To date, analyses of dental microwear texture, using three-dimensional, Scale-Sensitive Fractal Analysis approaches has only been applied to occlusal surfaces. Here, for the first time, we apply this 3D proxy to buc…
Tooth wear and feeding ecology in mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
OBJECTIVES: Ecological factors have a dramatic effect on tooth wear in primates, although it remains unclear how individual age contributes to functional crown morphology. The aim of this study is to determine how age and individual diet are related to tooth wear in wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We calculated the percent of dentine exposure (PDE) for all permanent mo…
Phylogenetic signal in molar dental shape of extant and fossil catarrhine primates
Dental-macrowear and diet of Tigara foragers from Point Hope, northern Alaska
Ethnographic studies indicate that Eskimo foragers are characterized by well-defined sexual division of labor and extensive use of anterior teeth as a tool, resulting in higher degrees of wear. However, little is known about the intra-population variation in molar-macrowear rates and dietary implications. Here, percentages of dentin exposure (PDE) were recorded on first mandibular molars among Tigara foragers from Point Hope (Alaska) and attempt …
First molar size and wear within and among modern hunter-gatherers and agricultural populations
Brief communication: Short‐ and long‐term in vivo human buccal–dental microwear turnover
Buccal–dental microwear depends on the abrasive content of chewed foodstuffs and can reveal long‐term dietary trends in human populations. However, in vivo experimental analyses of buccal microwear formation processes are scarce. Here, we report the effects of an abrasive diet on microwear rates in two adult volunteers at intervals of 8 days over a period of 1 month and document long‐term turnover over 5 consecutive years in the same subjects und…
Age-related variability in buccal dental-microwear in Middle and Upper Pleistocene human populations
Infants are thought to present a different buccal microwear pattern than adults and these, therefore, are generally analyzed separately. However, El-Zaatari & Hublin [2009] showed that occlusal texture in Neandertal and modern human juvenile populations did not differ from their elders. The microwear patterns of a sample of 193 teeth, corresponding to 61 individuals of Homo heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis and anatomically modern humans (AMH)…
Espantaleón Peralta, Antonio (2002). El País y la transición política
Obra ressenyada: Antonio ESPANTALEÓN PERALTA, El País y la transición política. Universidad de Granada, 2002.
De Pablos, J. C.; Pascual, N.; Gómez, Y. (1999). La búsqueda de la calidad de vida: Una aproximación interpretativa
Obra ressenyada: J.C. DE PABLOS; N. PASCUAL; Y. GÓMEZ, La búsqueda de la calidad de vida: una aproximación interpretativa. Universidad de Granada, 1999.
Steady State and Nanosecond Time Resolved Fluorescence of Dansyl N-Octadecyl Amine in Bilayer Liposomes
Brief communication: Short‐ and long‐term in vivo human buccal–dental microwear turnover
Buccal–dental microwear depends on the abrasive content of chewed foodstuffs and can reveal long‐term dietary trends in human populations. However, in vivo experimental analyses of buccal microwear formation processes are scarce. Here, we report the effects of an abrasive diet on microwear rates in two adult volunteers at intervals of 8 days over a period of 1 month and document long‐term turnover over 5 consecutive years in the same subjects und…
Dental microwear textural analysis as an analytical tool to depict individual traits and reconstruct the diet of a primate
Considering the interplay between the tested variables and both dental microwear and diet, we reaffirm that food physical properties play a major role in microwear variations. These results suggest that DMTA parameters may provide valuable hints for paleoecological reconstruction using fragmentary fossil dental remains
Tooth wear and feeding ecology in mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
OBJECTIVES: Ecological factors have a dramatic effect on tooth wear in primates, although it remains unclear how individual age contributes to functional crown morphology. The aim of this study is to determine how age and individual diet are related to tooth wear in wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We calculated the percent of dentine exposure (PDE) for all permanent mo…
Dental-macrowear and diet of Tigara foragers from Point Hope, northern Alaska
Ethnographic studies indicate that Eskimo foragers are characterized by well-defined sexual division of labor and extensive use of anterior teeth as a tool, resulting in higher degrees of wear. However, little is known about the intra-population variation in molar-macrowear rates and dietary implications. Here, percentages of dentin exposure (PDE) were recorded on first mandibular molars among Tigara foragers from Point Hope (Alaska) and attempt …
Age-related variability in buccal dental-microwear in Middle and Upper Pleistocene human populations
Infants are thought to present a different buccal microwear pattern than adults and these, therefore, are generally analyzed separately. However, El-Zaatari & Hublin [2009] showed that occlusal texture in Neandertal and modern human juvenile populations did not differ from their elders. The microwear patterns of a sample of 193 teeth, corresponding to 61 individuals of Homo heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis and anatomically modern humans (AMH)…
Correlations among dietary proxies in African fossil hominins: Dental buccal microwear, occlusal textures and 13C stable isotope
Phylogenetic signal in molar dental shape of extant and fossil catarrhine primates
Dental evidence of textile-related task activities in the Bronze Age site of Laderas del Castillo (Alicante, Spain)
Scanning microscopy identifies extra-masticatory anterior tooth wear at an Argaric site. • DNA-based methods determined a female sexual attribution. • Plant fibers found in dental calculus confirm a female textile craft specialization. The burial 7 from the Argaric site of Laderas del Castillo (Alicante, Spain), dating from the 2nd millennium BC, included a skeleton associated with a carinated vessel indicative of social recognition. Anthropologi…
Steady State and Nanosecond Time Resolved Fluorescence of Dansyl N-Octadecyl Amine in Bilayer Liposomes
De Pablos, J. C.; Pascual, N.; Gómez, Y. (1999). La búsqueda de la calidad de vida: Una aproximación interpretativa
Obra ressenyada: J.C. DE PABLOS; N. PASCUAL; Y. GÓMEZ, La búsqueda de la calidad de vida: una aproximación interpretativa. Universidad de Granada, 1999.
Espantaleón Peralta, Antonio (2002). El País y la transición política
Obra ressenyada: Antonio ESPANTALEÓN PERALTA, El País y la transición política. Universidad de Granada, 2002.
Age-related variability in buccal dental-microwear in Middle and Upper Pleistocene human populations
Infants are thought to present a different buccal microwear pattern than adults and these, therefore, are generally analyzed separately. However, El-Zaatari & Hublin [2009] showed that occlusal texture in Neandertal and modern human juvenile populations did not differ from their elders. The microwear patterns of a sample of 193 teeth, corresponding to 61 individuals of Homo heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis and anatomically modern humans (AMH)…
Brief communication: Short‐ and long‐term in vivo human buccal–dental microwear turnover
Buccal–dental microwear depends on the abrasive content of chewed foodstuffs and can reveal long‐term dietary trends in human populations. However, in vivo experimental analyses of buccal microwear formation processes are scarce. Here, we report the effects of an abrasive diet on microwear rates in two adult volunteers at intervals of 8 days over a period of 1 month and document long‐term turnover over 5 consecutive years in the same subjects und…
First molar size and wear within and among modern hunter-gatherers and agricultural populations
Tooth wear and feeding ecology in mountain gorillas from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
OBJECTIVES: Ecological factors have a dramatic effect on tooth wear in primates, although it remains unclear how individual age contributes to functional crown morphology. The aim of this study is to determine how age and individual diet are related to tooth wear in wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) from Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We calculated the percent of dentine exposure (PDE) for all permanent mo…
Phylogenetic signal in molar dental shape of extant and fossil catarrhine primates
Dental-macrowear and diet of Tigara foragers from Point Hope, northern Alaska
Ethnographic studies indicate that Eskimo foragers are characterized by well-defined sexual division of labor and extensive use of anterior teeth as a tool, resulting in higher degrees of wear. However, little is known about the intra-population variation in molar-macrowear rates and dietary implications. Here, percentages of dentin exposure (PDE) were recorded on first mandibular molars among Tigara foragers from Point Hope (Alaska) and attempt …
Buccal dental microwear texture and catarrhine diets
OBJECTIVES: Two-dimensional dental microwear analyses on occlusal and nonocclusal enamel surfaces have been widely applied to reconstruct the feeding behaviors of extant primates and to infer ecological adaptations in fossil hominins. To date, analyses of dental microwear texture, using three-dimensional, Scale-Sensitive Fractal Analysis approaches has only been applied to occlusal surfaces. Here, for the first time, we apply this 3D proxy to buc…
Correlations among dietary proxies in African fossil hominins: Dental buccal microwear, occlusal textures and 13C stable isotope
Dental microwear textural analysis as an analytical tool to depict individual traits and reconstruct the diet of a primate
Considering the interplay between the tested variables and both dental microwear and diet, we reaffirm that food physical properties play a major role in microwear variations. These results suggest that DMTA parameters may provide valuable hints for paleoecological reconstruction using fragmentary fossil dental remains
Tooth dimensions and body size in a Pygmy population
Background: The relationship between tooth size and stature has been analysed extensively at the interspecies level but has received less attention at the intraspecies level. The relationship between these two parameters does not seem to be the same among modern human populations. Aim: The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between tooth dimensions and body measurements in the Baka Pygmies. Subjects and methods: Height, weight, and …
Dental evidence of textile-related task activities in the Bronze Age site of Laderas del Castillo (Alicante, Spain)
Scanning microscopy identifies extra-masticatory anterior tooth wear at an Argaric site. • DNA-based methods determined a female sexual attribution. • Plant fibers found in dental calculus confirm a female textile craft specialization. The burial 7 from the Argaric site of Laderas del Castillo (Alicante, Spain), dating from the 2nd millennium BC, included a skeleton associated with a carinated vessel indicative of social recognition. Anthropologi…
Rethinking Wear Rate Analysis: A New Dentin Exposure Proxy and its Applications to Ancient Chinese Populations
Assessing age through dentin exposure often leads to underestimated age due to assumptions of constant molar wear rate. New methods for age-related dentin exposure accrual could facilitate cross-population comparisons independent of dietary habits and sociocultural strategies. We analyzed 3D dentin exposure surfaces in four Chinese archaeological samples to reveal variations in dentin exposure rates linked to socioeconomic practices. Linear regre…
Biology (8 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (8 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (7 works) · Dentistry (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Ecology (4 works)