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- April 2, 2026 4 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age A new archeological finding shows that Native Americans were exploring probability through games of chan
- Robert Madden The history of gambling goes back way further than anyone imagined
- This new discovery drastically alters the date of a key intellectual moment in the history of human culture—the recognition that some events in nature are random, under nobody’s control
- All games of chance, from Yahtzee to horse race betting, rely on probability, a relatively unintuitive concept
- So archaeologists have taken care to document early examples, including dice used for games played by North Americans as early as 2,000 years ago
- They’ve uncovered similar-seeming objects at even more ancient sites, but these pieces were individually too tiny and nondescript, and too isolated in the archaeological record, to identify with any c
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Published by Bocphot on April 03, 2026. Source: Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age
