Right handed Neandertals: Vindija and beyond

Right handed Neandertals: Vindija and beyond

15 páginas, 4 figuras.-- Frayer, David W. et al.

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Main Authors: Frayer, David W., Lalueza-Fox, Carles, Bondioli, Luca
Format: artículo biblioteca
Language:English
Published: Istituto italiano di antropologia 2010
Subjects:Handedness, Labial striations, Language capability, Croatia,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/43635
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spelling dig-ibe-es-10261-436352018-09-17T11:29:51Z Right handed Neandertals: Vindija and beyond Frayer, David W. Lalueza-Fox, Carles Bondioli, Luca Handedness Labial striations Language capability Croatia 15 páginas, 4 figuras.-- Frayer, David W. et al. Seven Vindija (Croatia) Neandertal teeth, dated ~32,000 years ago, were analyzed to determine patterning of scratches on the anterior teeth. Oblique scratches exclusively on the labial faces of incisors and canines represent a distinctive pattern, characteristic of hand directed, non-masticatory activities. At Vindija and elsewhere these scratches reveal activities, which were performed primarily with the right hand. The late Neandertals from Vindija, combined with other studies, show that European Neandertals were predominately right-handed with a ratio 15:2 (88.2%), a frequency similar to living people. Studies of teeth from Atapuerca extend this modern ratio to more than 500,000 years ago and increase the frequency of right-handers in the European fossil record to almost 94%. Species-wide, preferential right-handedness is a defining feature of modern Homo sapiens, tied to brain laterality and language with the ~9:1 ratio of right- to left-handers - a reflection of the link between left hemispheric dominance and language. Up-to-date behavioral and anatomical studies of Neandertal fossils and the recent discovery of their possession of the FOXP2 gene indicate Neandertals (and, very likely, their European ancestors) had linguistic capacities similar to living humans. Peer reviewed 2011-12-22T10:20:07Z 2011-12-22T10:20:07Z 2010 artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 Journal of Anthropological Sciences 88: 113-127 (2010) 1827-4765 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/43635 2037-0644 en http://www.isita-org.com/jass/Contents/ContentsVol88.htm Sí open Istituto italiano di antropologia
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topic Handedness
Labial striations
Language capability
Croatia
Handedness
Labial striations
Language capability
Croatia
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Labial striations
Language capability
Croatia
Handedness
Labial striations
Language capability
Croatia
Frayer, David W.
Lalueza-Fox, Carles
Bondioli, Luca
Right handed Neandertals: Vindija and beyond
description 15 páginas, 4 figuras.-- Frayer, David W. et al.
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Labial striations
Language capability
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Bondioli, Luca
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