Hand to mouth in a Neandertal: Right-handedness in Regourdou 1

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Volpato, Virginie ^a   Macchiarelli, Roberto ^b,c   Guatelli Steinberg, Debbie ^d   Fiore, Ivana ^e   Bondioli, Luca ^e   Frayer, David W ^e,f  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Soprintendenza al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L Pigorini   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; BONE AGE; BONE STRUCTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLAVICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTITION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; HUMERUS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INCISOR; LINGUISTICS; MALE; RADIUS; REGOURDOU 1; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SKELETON; ULNA;

ANIMALS; ARM BONES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEANDERTHALS; SHOULDER; TOOTH;

EID: 84865156817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043949     Document Type: Article

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