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Native Americans invented dice

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 timeline dramatically.

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Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

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Native Americans Were Making Dice and Gaming Thousands of Years Before Anyone Else

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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 ...

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 ...

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Native Americans invented dice

Ancient bone dice reveal 12,000-year history of gambling in America

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

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