12,000-Year-Old Native American Dice Rewrite the History of Gambling

Long before ancient civilizations in the Old World, Native American hunter-gatherers were already playing games of chance using carefully crafted bone dice more than 12,000 years ago. New research ...

Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper ...
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Ancient bone dice reveal 12,000-year history of gambling in America

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before ...
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Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, study reveals

A new study shows that dice and games of chance date back thousands of years earlier than experts previously thought.