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Study Finds Evidence of Dice Use by Native Americans 12,000 Years Ago

A study published in American Antiquity reports that Native Americans used binary lots as dice for gaming and gambling more than 12,000 years ago, predating the Bronze Age by thousands of years. Artifacts from sites in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico date to the Folsom Period,…

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