Middle East and the Mediterranean Ī series of 49 small carved painted stones found at the 5,000-year-old Başur Höyük burial mound in southeast Turkey could represent the earliest gaming pieces ever found. According to Durkheim, games were founded in a religious setting and were a cornerstone of social bonding. In ancient civilizations there was no clear distinction between the sacred and the profane. Other implements could have included shells, stones and sticks. These bones were also sometimes used for oracular and divinatory functions. Some of the most common pre-historic and ancient gaming tools were made of bone, especially from the Talus bone, these have been found worldwide and are the ancestors of knucklebones as well as dice games. Huizinga saw games as a starting point for complex human activities such as language, law, war, philosophy and art.Ĭhinese dice, Warring States (left), Tang dynasty (right) Huizinga saw the playing of games as something that "is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing". In his 1938 book, Homo Ludens, Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga argued that games were a primary condition of the generation of human cultures. Games like Gyan chauper and The Mansion of Happiness were used to teach spiritual and ethical lessons while Shatranj and Wéiqí (Go) were seen as a way to develop strategic thinking and mental skill by the political and military elite. Games such as Senet and the Mesoamerican ball game were often imbued with mythic and ritual religious significance. As pastimes of royalty and the elite, some games became common features of court culture and were also given as gifts. Games were important as cultural and social bonding events, as teaching tools and as markers of social status. Games capture the ideas and worldviews of their cultures and pass them on to the future generation. Common features of games include uncertainty of outcome, agreed upon rules, competition, separate place and time, elements of fiction, elements of chance, prescribed goals and personal enjoyment. Games are formalized expressions of play which allow people to go beyond immediate imagination and direct physical activity. Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. The history of games dates to the ancient human past. Indian Ambassadors, probably sent by the Maukhari King Śarvavarman of Kannauj, present the Chaturanga chess game to Khosrau I, from "A treatise on chess", 14th century. SEARCH 1,000,000's of Antiques, Art, Mid-Century, Vintage & RARE Collectors' items. 1,000,000's of Antiques, Art, Vintage and RARE Collectables. Search item(s) and collection(s) - over 250,000+ popular antique and collecting search keywords. Buy, sell and value in over 150+ specialist categories.
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