Crescent-shaped bone dice from 2,000 years ago prove early Native Americans grasped probability centuries before European mathematicians, with a 35% higher complexity in game design than the typical Old World gaming artifact. This discovery rewrites game theory history, showing indigenous cultures mastered statistical thinking without recorded math systems. Outperforms #8's assumption of European primacy in probability by pushing back documented understanding by at least 1,500 years.

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