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Now, a new study has found evidence that Native Americans were likely using dice for gaming and gambling more than 6,000 years earlier, since the end of the last ice age.—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026 That number places human presence in the Yucatán thousands of years before the caves flooded at the end of the last ice age.—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2026 The cave system flooded at the end of the last ice age — the end of the Pleistocene epoch — approximately 8,000 years ago, due to rising sea levels from melting ice.—Ryan Brennan
april 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026 The age estimate — at least 8,000 years — is based on when the cave system flooded at the end of the last ice age.—Ryan Brennan
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