Open AccessTimucua Hand Use: Dispelling the Myth of Left-Hand Preference
Author(s) -
George Aaron Broadwell
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
new florida journal of anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2691-2260
pISSN - 2691-2252
DOI - 10.32473/nfja.v1i2.123622
Subject(s) - preference , hand preference , argument (complex analysis) , mythology , left and right , property (philosophy) , aesthetics , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , medicine , laterality , economics , theology , developmental psychology , engineering , microeconomics , structural engineering
At the time of Spanish contact, the Timucua were the original people of northern central Florida. Granberry (1996) claimed in a provocative article that Timucua constitutes an exception to the universal or near-universal property of preference for the right hand, and showed a preference for the left hand instead. This article critically examines Granberry's argument, and shows that there is no good linguistic evidence to support left-hand preference in Timucua