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Native American dice games date back over 12,000 years

A peer-reviewed study published in American Antiquity has established that Native American hunter-gatherers were crafting and using dice more than 12,000 years ago, thousands of years before any ...
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Native Americans were making dice, gambling, and exploring probability thousands of years before their Old World counterparts

(Middle Holocene), NMNH-A437076, NMNH-550791; (b) Agate Basin, Wyoming (Early Holocene), UW-11327; (c, f) Agate Basin, Wyoming (Late Pleistocene), UW-OA111, UW-OA448 ...
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Native Americans Made Earliest Known Dice 12,000 Years Ago

A new Colorado State University study presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than ...