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Ice Age Casino: World's Oldest Dice Discovered in the Great Plains

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Ice Age Casino: World’s Oldest Dice Discovered in the Great Plains

Examples of diagnostic and probable prehistoric Native American dice

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that the world’s oldest known dice were crafted and used by Native American hunter-gatherers more than 12,000 years ago. These ancient gaming pieces, discovered in the western Great Plains of North America, predate the earliest known dice from Bronze Age societies in the Old World by over 6,000 years. The remarkable findings suggest that indigenous peoples were engaging in complex games of chance and exploring probability thousands of years before the concept emerged in written mathematics.

The research, conducted by Colorado State University Ph.D. student Robert J. Madden and published in the journal American Antiquity, identified the earliest examples of these dice at Late Pleistocene Folsom-period archaeological sites in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. These artifacts, dating back to roughly 12,800 to 12,200 years ago, provide fascinating insights into the social lives and intellectual achievements of early inhabitants of the Americas.

Rewriting the History of Probability

“Historians have traditionally treated dice and probability as Old World innovations,” explained Madden in a press release. “What the archaeological record shows is that ancient Native American groups were deliberately making objects designed to produce random outcomes, and using those outcomes in structured games, thousands of years earlier than previously recognized.”

Gary Manners

www.Ancient-Origins.net – Reconstructing the story of humanity’s past


Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/oldest-dice-america-00102654



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