Native Americans used dice thousands of years before the Bronze Age

A new study claims Native Americans have been using dice to gamble and explore probability for more than 12,000 years.
The Debrief

12,000-Year-Old Native American Dice Rewrite the Ancient History of Probability

Ancient dice dating back 12,000 years suggest early humans understood chance and probability long before mathematics emerged.

Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper ...

Native Americans were making dice, gambling, exploring probability millennia before their ...

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by ...

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 ...
Earth.com

Dice and games of chance were invented in a very different time and place than previously ...

Surprising new research reveals that Native Americans invented the world's first dice after the Last Ice Age, over 12,000 ...
Ars Technica

A probability question with lots of dice: how do I calculate this?

It's been a long time since I scraped through my probability and stats class in college... There is a time-killing dice game a friend (seems to have) invented: You start with a pool 10 6-sided ...