""The making and using of dice represent humans' first known efforts to intentionally generate, observe, and record streams of controlled, random events...""
""The dice tend to show up in liminal spaces where you have a lot of high mobility... the need to relate to people you don't see very often.""
""Anthropologists consider this to be a crucial early step in humanity's evolving discovery and understanding of randomness and the probabilistic nature of the universe.""
Research indicates that dice were used by ancient North American cultures as far back as the Late Pleistocene, challenging previous beliefs about their origins. Excavations in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico reveal dice associated with the Folsom Culture, a hunter-gatherer society. These findings suggest that the creation and use of dice marked early human efforts to understand randomness and probability, representing a significant step in humanity's comprehension of controlled random events and the probabilistic nature of the universe.
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