New York Post

12,000-year-old dice hint at gambling habits as early as the last Ice Age

It was the Dice Age. An analysis of 12,000-year-old Native American dice could potentially provide the first-ever proof of humans gambling, per a groundbreaking study published in the journal American ...
Phys.org

Native Americans were making dice, gambling, exploring probability millennia before their Old World counterparts

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence 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 ...
The Conversation

Archaeologists have discovered 12,000‑year‑old dice – here’s what they reveal about the history of play

The recently discovered 12,000-year-old dice made from wood and bone by Native American hunter gatherers. Robert Madden Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left ...
AOL

12,000-year-old dice hint at gambling habits as early as the last Ice Age

Sets of 12,000-year-old dice found in North America suggests that humans have been gambling since the last Ice Age. It was the Dice Age. An analysis of 12,000-year-old Native American dice could ...
EurekAlert!

Native Americans were making dice, gambling, and exploring probability thousands of years before their Old World counterparts

(Middle Holocene), NMNH-A437076, NMNH-550791; (b) Agate Basin, Wyoming (Early Holocene), UW-11327; (c, f) Agate Basin, Wyoming (Late Pleistocene), UW-OA111, UW-OA448 ...