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Don't know what drove them to say it is an early form of Hnefatafl, other than that both are games played on a board. Hnefatafl games (there are several [1]) are pure strategy open information games using different pieces with different moves. This discovery is of a game played with dice and apparently identical pieces. There are no pictures of the board. so I can only speculate about it, but my guess would be this g…
Dice, not dices!
Don't know what drove them to say it is an early form of Hnefatafl, other than that both are games played on a board. Hnefatafl games (there are several [1]) are pure strategy open information games using different pieces with different moves. This discovery is of a game played with dice and apparently identical pieces. There are no pictures of the board. so I can only speculate about it, but my guess would be this g…
We changed the URL from https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/05/1700-yea... to one that is almost identical but has more information. Is archaeologynewsnetwork a blogspam site? Or was this a case of both articles working off some press release?
I honestly don't know. I just posted the one I encountered. But after some googling, this seems to be the original source: https://www.uib.no/en/culturalhistory/135652/gaming-roman-ir...
More seriously, I think it is pretty interesting that board games would be the thing that meant this person was automatically considered aristocracy and upper class because they had board games buried with them. Today of course someone with a lot of board games or a love for them is often just considered a nerd. Perhaps nerds ruled Norway at the time. That's an interesting thought too.
We changed the URL from https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/05/1700-yea... to one that is almost identical but has more information. Is archaeologynewsnetwork a blogspam site? Or was this a case of both articles working off some press release?
Expecting the Hasbro/Parker Games DMCA take down notice at any time :-) More seriously, I think it is pretty interesting that board games would be the thing that meant this person was automatically considered aristocracy and upper class because they had board games buried with them. Today of course someone with a lot of board games or a love for them is often just considered a nerd. Perhaps nerds ruled Norway at the…