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

This is the first evidence we have of structured human engagement with the concepts of chance and randomness.” ...
Science Daily

Ancient bone dice reveal 12,000-year history of gambling in America

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Are these the earliest known dice in the world? Native Americans may have used them to play games of chance more than 12,000 years ago

Cultures around the world have been playing games of chance for millennia. Previously, historians had discovered examples of ...
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Objects of Wonder

Explore the breadth, scope and splendor of the world’s most extensive natural history research collection—more than 145 million artifacts and specimens. The exhibition examines how scientists use ...