Native Americans Played Dice Games Far Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Shows

Native Americans were using dice for gaming long before Bronze Age societies in the Old World, according to a new Colorado State University study. Research published in the journal American Antiquity by Robert J. Madden, a PhD student at CSU, presents evidence that dice were made by hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 years ago.Dice games are considered humanity’s earliest structured engagement with the idea of randomness, the intellectual precursor to probabilist