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Study Finds 12,000-Year-Old Native American Dice That Upend the History of Chance

A peer-reviewed reanalysis places the birth of dice-based games in Ice Age North America.

Indonesian Hand Stencil Dated to 67,800 Years Emerges as Oldest Known Rock Art

Stone Age Burials Show Women and Children Interred With Tools as Often as Men

Isotope Study Links 6,000-Year-Old Alsace ‘Victory’ Burials to Outsider Victims

Study Confirms 5,700-Year-Old Cannibalism During Neolithic Conflict at El Mirador Cave