Study reveals Native Americans invented dice 12000 years ago
A study led by doctoral researcher Alexandre Madden has revealed that Native Americans created dice for games of chance over 12,000 years ago, predating similar practices in Europe by more than 6,000 years. The research, published in the journal _American Antiquity_, identified over 600 artifacts from the western Great Plains that fit the criteria for dice, demonstrating that ancient hunter-gatherer cultures engaged in structured games of chance long before their Old World counterparts.