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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 ...

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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 ...

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More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before similar tools appeared elsewhere. These bone “binary lots” acted like ...