Fifty Centuries of Right-Handedness: The Historical Record

11 November 1977

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 198 (4317) , 631-632
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.335510

Abstract

A survey of more than 5000 years of art works, encompassing 1180 scorable instances of unimanual tool or weapon usage, revealed no systematic trends in hand usage. The right hand was used in an average of 93 percent of the cases, regardless of which historical era or geographic region was assessed.

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