Being right-handed it seems natural that I write from left to
right on the page. This way I can see what I've written. And
since most people (at least in the Western world) are right-
handed, it seems natural for them to write left to right. But in
the Middle East people write from right to left. Could it
therefore be reasoned that the majority of them are left-handed?
-- PN, San Diego About 100 years ago, an archaeologist used the
same reasoning but never convinced many colleagues to hop on his
theoretical bus. From their writing, he postulated that ancient
societies were left-handed and we've only recently come to favor
the right. Most others studying cave paintings and ancient
tools, weapons, and documents believe there never was such a
thing as a left-handed society. And there still isn't. Righties
rule, worldwide. Writing evolved when there were finally enough
of us around to require business records and the identification
of personal property. And of course the first writing was
pictographs, not script.