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Native Americans were making dice, gambling, exploring probability millennia before their Old World counterparts
- April 2, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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A new study in American Antiquity 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 12,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age, long before the earliest known dice from Bronze Age societies in the Old World.
Originally published at Phys.org