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In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. The findings suggest Native Americans had dice and games of probability 12,000 years ago.
The study, published Thursday in the journal American Antiquity, indicates such activities were first developed in the present-day Southwestern U.S. — not in Mesopotamia or by other ancient cultures. This is thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
“We see it right in North America, beginning 12,000 years ago, people really starting to engage with some really complex kinds of intellectual concepts,” said Robert Madden, the study’s author. “These concepts end up being foundational to our modern scientific understanding.”
Madden, 62, was a trial lawyer for about 25 years before he began pursuing archaeology. He spent about three years combing through old archaeological site reports to build the timeline in his study.
📌 한국어 요약
새로운 연구에 따르면 북미 원주민은 12,000 년 전 주사위와 확률 게임을 사용했습니다. 이는 구대륙보다 수천 년 앞선 것입니다.
📚 핵심 단어
- Probability: 확률 – 어떤 사건이 발생할 가능성
- Archaeologist: 고고학자 – 고대 유적을 연구하는 학자
- Excavation: 발굴 – 고대 유적을 파헤치는 작업