A new study may have identified the oldest known dice, dating back more than 12,000 years. The record-breaking game pieces were used by Native American hunter-gatherers near the end of the last ice age, which makes them thousands of years older than previously known artifacts that could be considered dice. They didn't look like the classic cubes decorated with dots that tell your thimble to go directly to jail – instead, they were two-sided objects with different markings on each face. The