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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 ...

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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 ...

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New research shows that Native Americans were making dice for gaming thousands of years before anyone else in the world.

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