E-Mail: MTEAFORD(at)jhmi.edu
Phone: 410-955-7034

1830 E. Monument St., Room 303
Baltimore, MD 21205 USA

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois, 1981
M.A., Anthropology, University of Illinois, 1977
B.A., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1973

mammalian functional morphology
primate dentitions
tooth wear and diet
scanning electron microscopy
fossil hominoids and hominins

Curriculum Vitae

Ungar, P.S., Grine, F.E., and Teaford, M.F. (2008) Dental microwear and diet of the Plio-Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus boisei. PLoS One 3(4): e2044. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit PLoS ONE page)

Braly, A., Darnell, L.A., Mann, A.B., Teaford, M.F., and Weihs, T.P. (2007). The effect of prism orientation on the indentation testing of human molar enamel. Arch. Oral Biol. 52: 856-860.

Teaford, M.F. and Ungar, P.S. (2007) Dental adaptations of African apes. In: W. Henke and I. Tattersall (eds). Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Vol. 2. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 1107-1132.

Teaford, M.F. (2007). What do we know and not know about diet and enamel structure? In: P.S. Ungar (ed). Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 56-76.

Grine, F.E., Ungar, P.S., Teaford, M.F., and El-Zaatari, S. (2006) Molar microwear in Praeanthropus afarensis: evidence for dietary stasis through time and under diverse paleoecological conditions. J. Hum. Evol. 51:297-319. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Elsevier page)

Teaford, M.F., Lucas, P.W., Ungar, P.S. and Glander, K.E. (2006) Mechanical defenses in leaves eaten by Costa Rican Alouatta palliata. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 129: 99-104. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Wiley AJPA page)

Ungar, P.S., Grine, F.E., and Teaford, M.F. (2006) Diet in early Homo: A review of the evidence and a new model of adaptive versatility. Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 35: 209-228 DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Annual Reviews page)

Scott, R.S., Ungar, P.S., Bergstrom, T.S., Brown, C.A., Grine, F.E., Teaford, M.F., and Walker, A. (2005). Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins. Nature 436: 693-695. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Nature page)

El-Zaatari, S., Grine, F.E., Teaford, M.F., and Smith, H.F. (2005). Molar microwear and dietary reconstructions of fossil Cercopithecoidea from the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of South Africa. J. Hum. Evol. 49: 180-205. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Elsevier page)

Dennis, J.C., Ungar, P.S., Teaford, M.F., and Glander, K.E. (2004) Dental topography and molar wear in Alouatta palliata from Costa Rica. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 125(2): 152-161. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Wiley AJPA page)

Ungar, P.S., Teaford, M.F. and Kay, R.F. (2004) Molar microwear and shearing crest development in Miocene catarrhines. Anthropologie 42(1): 21-35.

Leakey, M.G., Teaford, M.F., and Ward, C.W. (2003) Cercopithecidae from Lothagam. In Lothagam: Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa. M.G. Leakey and J.M. Harris, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 201-248.

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