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

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12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice
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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, and for a long time, it was thought that the first dice ever used could be traced to the ancient Eastern European and Near East cultures of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Caucasus. But according to a new paper by Robert Madden, published by Cambridge University Press, games of chance develo

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