Experimental archaeology and hominid evolution: establishing a methodology for determining handedness in lithic materials as a proxy for cognitive evolution

Human handedness is likely related to brain lateralization and major cognitive innovations in human evolution. Identifying handedness in the archaeological record is, therefore, an important step in understanding our cognitive evolution. This thesis reports on experiments in identifying knapper ha...

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Other Authors: Ruck, Lana (author)
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Florida Atlantic University
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Online Access:http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004325
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