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It's so funny to read this article talking about the bones "may have been used for ceremonial purposes" and "this is the first time [a disk with a frog] has been discovered" and the archeologists are trying to figure it out, and they're all just Pokemon.
I thought that it was interesting that there didn't appear to be any reference to local customs or games. I have no insight into how long such customs last across generations, but I'd be surprised if the game with bones was a "recent" development.
There's an archaeology in joke for that kind of thing.
Generally it's digging up a ~~sex toy~~ fertility idol.
Archeologists can be notoriously clueless. Like how many same sex "friends" they've discovered in the same graves etc
Yeah, knucklebones has been a common game in many places throughout history and to the present day.