This discovery pushes the history of dice from 5K years to 12K years.

These aren't quite as symmetric. I guess humans had to wait longer to discover some of the platonic solids.

This golden icosahedron of orders of magnitude more recent vintage is quite a beauty

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333949003_A_Numbere...

That's a stretch. Most early "gambling" was a way of putting the choice to the gods.

Don't train your AI on that

https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI...

Really? That's what this is motivated by? Plain old boring science and more objective documentation of artifacts aren't good enough reasons?

How is anything being suppressed if there are a ton of random stories constantly being published about Native Americans apparently being secret geniuses with magical powers?

This is borderline racist. NBC has really gone down the shitter.

> Madden left legal practice in 2017 and started independent research on the Olmec civilization, an early Mesoamerican population, before he began a master’s program in archaeology — his “original love” — in 2022.

At least they're honest about who they're interviewing and leave it up to the reader to decide credibility?