It was the Dice Age. An analysis of 12,000-year-old Native American dice could potentially provide the first-ever proof of humans gambling, per a groundbreaking study published in the journal American Antiquity. “This is the first evidence we have of structured human engagement with the concepts of chance and randomness,” study author Robert Madden, an anthropologist and PhD student at Colorado State University, told Livescience. He noted that the game pieces preceded “evidence we have of dice