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Dice Are 6,000 Years Older Than Previously Believed, Study Says

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Dice Are 6,000 Years Older Than Previously Believed, Study Says
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New research published in the journal American Antiquity last week posits that the first dice appeared more than 12,000 years ago, much earlier than previously believed. Made by Native Americans, the Pleistocene-era pieces predate all other archeological findings of dice, most of which come from the Bronze Age, by over 6,000 years. Dice represent a recognition of randomness; tools that wield unpredictability. “At the end of the last Ice Age, these are not the people we think are goin

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