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07.06.2004

According to a study conducted by historians from the University of Montpellier (France), the number of left-handers has not changed over the past 30 thousand years.

Paleolithic people often applied prints of their palms to the walls of caves, pressing their hand to the stone and covering a section of the wall with ocher powder with the other hand (according to some reports, the powder could be applied from a pipe into which the artist blew). Apparently, handprints were made for magical purposes, or maybe this is an analogue of the inscriptions left on the rocks by modern tourists.

Having studied 507 such prints aged 10-30 thousand years in 26 caves in France and Spain, Charlotte Forier and Michel Raymond found that 23% of them belong to the right palms, that is, the authors of these drawings acted with the left hand. Then the historians asked 179 French students to use the same method to leave their prints on sheets of cardboard. It turned out that 22,9% preferred to act with their left hand, receiving an imprint with their right.

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