"Ancient Dice", Cattle Astralgus

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Grand Valley State University Anthropology
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Release Date
2022-02-16
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CC BY 4.0
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A surface find on the site of Hirbemerdon Tepe in southeastern Turkey, knuckle bones such as this one, have been used by humans as a form of proto-dice for thousands of years. This Cattle Astralgus is from the Middle Bronze Age or Iron Age. Model created by Drew Rausch and Mark Schwartz