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jl6today at 3:24 PM1 replyview on HN

How do we know these were dice rather than some other type of tool? I can imagine all kinds of uses for carefully shaped hard bone fragments, and the picture in the article shows objects that seem like they might be almost anything.


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tantalortoday at 4:16 PM

> They’re carefully shaped to produce random outcomes and marked or colored to indicate different sides.

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