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Study finds Native American dice games predate Old World by 6,000 years

Archaeological evidence shows Native Americans were crafting and playing dice games over 12,000 years ago, thousands of years before similar practices appeared in Africa, Asia, or Europe. Analysis of ...
Popular Mechanics

Jackpot! Archaeologists Just Found the World's Oldest Dice.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new piece of research shows that the world’s oldest-known dice came from North America 12,000 years ago. The rudimentary games of chance were used ...
The Art Newspaper

Native Americans created dice more than 12,000 years ago, study finds

A new Colorado State University study reveals 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 ...
CNN

Prehistoric dice suggest that Native Americans may have been gaming since the last ice age

The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from approximately 3000 BC uncovered in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. Now, a new study has found ...
Colossal

12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice

Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, ...
SciTech Daily

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 ...
Ars Technica

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 published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...
KOB 4

Scientists find evidence of dice games 12,000 years ago in New Mexico

FORT COLLINS, COLO. — Scientists uncovered new evidence that Native cultures in the Southwest, including in New Mexico, had dice games 12,000 years ago. Archaeologists published the findings Thursday ...
NBC News

Native Americans had dice and games of probability long before other cultures, study finds

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...
AOL

Native Americans had dice and games of probability long before other cultures, study finds

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. The findings, published Thursday in the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Are These the Earliest Known Dice in the World? Native Americans May Have Used Them to Play Games of Chance More Than 12,000 Years Ago

Cultures around the world have been playing games of chance for millennia. Previously, historians had discovered examples of dice dating back some 5,500 years. But new research may push back that ...