Left-handed potters of the Bronze Age (first results of the experimental study)

The paper reports on the results of an experimental study aimed at identifying left-handed potters based on ornamentation impressions on clay vessels. The experiment involved 33 left-handed persons and 31 right-handed persons. It confirmed the hypothesis put forward by the author that Fatyanovo ceramics featuring rhomb figures with inclination of the impressions towards the left (from the northwest to the southeast) were made by left-handed persons.