I would highly recommend you just read the original work instead of this article https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/-/E38C7B1F4

I would highly recommend you just read the original work instead of this article https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/-/E38C7B1F4CE7F417D8EFAC5AFEEF20A2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a... It goes to great lengths to describe the rich history of dice and gambling games that seem to present through almost all of North America > His final report includes illustrations and descriptions of 293 unique sets of Native American dice from “130 tribes belonging to 30 linguistic stocks,” and it notes that “from no tribe [do dice] appear to have been absent” (Culin Reference Culin1907:48). In addition, Culin cites and quotes at length 149 ethnographic accounts of how these dice were used to power games of chance and for gambling. Based on this record, Culin suggested that “the wide distribution and range of variations in the dice games points to their high antiquity” (Reference Culin1907:48).