Summary:
- Archaeologists have discovered a set of 12,000-year-old bone dice, suggesting that Native American tribes were engaging in gambling activities long before the arrival of Europeans.
- The dice, found in Utah, are the oldest known gambling artifacts in North America, predating the establishment of permanent settlements and the development of agriculture.
- This discovery challenges the common assumption that gambling and organized games of chance emerged only after the development of complex societies, indicating that these activities were an integral part of ancient hunter-gatherer cultures.