margotlouail[at]g.harvard.edu
Main research question
Based on experimental approaches, one of the main objectives of my research is to capture the consumption of different proportions of food resources (similar to fallback foods targeted by early hominins) in the diet of pigs from the ANR projet DIET-Scratches.
I will mainly work on their dental microwear patterns that will notably be combined with biogechemical data.
Topics of study
Fossil suid and primate dental data from the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) will be studied in the light of these results to better understand their diversity and their evolution in relation with their feeding habits.
This research project will thus contribute to explain the influence of fallback foods on the selection of dental phenotypes among suids and primates, notably among early hominins.
