| Gradually, over thousands of years, astragali were replaced by dice, and the latter became the most common means of generating random events. |
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| Worked astragali from the deposit may indicate that gaming or fortune-telling took place. |
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| To test this hypothesis in the two fossil species, I measured eight aspects of 60 astragali from UCMP locality 1100, the type locality of S. nevadanus. |
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| Packed closely together were a large number of pieces of pottery, figurines, pig astragali, and other material, including another beautiful and elaborate cult stand. |
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| Atlas of North American Astragalus, Part 1, the Phacoid and Homaloboid Astragali. |
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