This week, Anna and Amber have dealt you an excellent hand of examples of gambling, and the archaeology and anthropology thereof! Listeners, we hope you'll bear with us on this episode. We recorded on day three of the 2020 electoral vote counts, and we've both lost our minds. Come along on this ride with us as we explore what evidence we have for gambling in the archaeological record, and what we can learn from the types of games people play.
Links
There’s no such thing as a natural-born gambler (The Conversation)
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (The Interpretation of Cultures)
Macassan History and Heritage (Australian National University)
Where to gamble on the medieval Adriatic? (Medievalists.net)
Queen Elizabeth I Held England’s First Official Lottery 450 Years Ago (Smithsonian)