Artifacts: Gaming Piece 4

Gaming Piece 4

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Unlike the other possible gaming pieces featured here, which are made of animal bone, this object was made by grinding a small piece of granite into a rectangular shape. This object was found in the same archaeological deposit (called a feature) as Gaming Piece 1.

Read more about this object in Archaeology Southwest, Volume 24, Numbers 1 and 2.