[Aztlan] Pre-Contact left-handedness

[james adams]

To all in the left-hand thread,

A recent paper (April 4) at the annual Mohican conference at the NY State Museum in Albany, NY made the point that left-handedness was much more common among pre-Contact indigenous population than it is in today's general population, a ratio of 1:3 versus 1:10. The speaker, Tom Lake, a leftie, offered slides of several left-handed implements. John Hurt at Museum might help with contact.

Best regards,

Jim Adams
National Museum of the American Indian