{"id":231079,"date":"2026-06-07T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231079"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:54:49","slug":"ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231079","title":{"rendered":"Ancient bone dice reveal 12,000-year history of gambling in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice\u2014thousands of years before similar tools appeared elsewhere. These bone \u201cbinary lots\u201d acted like primitive coins, producing random outcomes for games of chance. A new study shows these weren\u2019t accidental objects but carefully designed tools used across many regions and cultures&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/04\/260402042731.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice\u2014thousands of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america.webp",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america-768x432.webp",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america-1024x576.webp",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america-1536x864.webp",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america.webp",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america-1024x576.webp",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231079-ancient-bone-dice-reveal-12000-year-history-of-gambling-in-america-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}