Before Casinos, Before Ancient Rome: Ice Age Americans Were Rolling the Dice

Apr 7, 2026 - 16:30
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Before Casinos, Before Ancient Rome: Ice Age Americans Were Rolling the Dice
Diagnostic and probable prehistoric Native American dice: (a, d) Signal Butte, Nebraska (Middle Holocene); (b) Agate Basin, Wyoming (Early Holocene); (c, f) Agate Basin, Wyoming (Late Pleistocene); (e, g) Lindenmeier, Colorado (Late Pleistocene); (h) Irvine, Wyoming (Late Holocene). Image credit: Division of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History / Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming.

Colorado State University archaeologist says Native Americans were crafting dice and playing games of chance as far back as 12,000 years ago, long before such practices were thought to exist outside the Old World.

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