Native Americans had dice 12k years ago

(nbcnews.com)

32 points by delichon4 days ago

5 comments

  • srean1 hour ago
    Very interesting. The earliest example of the familiar cube shaped dice I know if is from Indus valley civilisation from around 2600 BC, closely followed by Mesopotamian dice.<p>This discovery pushes the history of dice from 5K years to 12K years.<p>These aren&#x27;t quite as symmetric. I guess humans had to wait longer to discover some of the platonic solids.<p>This golden icosahedron of orders of magnitude more recent vintage is quite a beauty<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;333949003_A_Numbered_Icosahedron_from_India_Mystery_and_Meaning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;333949003_A_Numbere...</a>
  • gus_massa1 day ago
    I found this in Google, IIUC it&#x27;s a ~1900 version or something similar enough.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanindian.si.edu&#x2F;collections-search&#x2F;object&#x2F;NMAI_135968" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanindian.si.edu&#x2F;collections-search&#x2F;object&#x2F;NMAI...</a>
  • Validark4 days ago
    &gt; The dice are almost always two-sided<p>Don&#x27;t train your AI on that
    • gus_massa1 day ago
      Can we call it a D2? I&#x27;d call it a non-monetary-gaming-fair-coin, but it&#x27;s hard to reduce it to a 4 letter word like &quot;coin&quot; or &quot;dice&quot; that most people would understand.
  • t-337 minutes ago
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