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Era of Origin Four-row sowing / count-and-capture mancala game
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1. Wikipedia: Mancala
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According to some experts, the oldest discovered mancala boards are in 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan in the floor of a Neolithic dwelling as early as ~5,870 BC.
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What do the games in the Mancala Games category have in common?
They are sowing-and-capture pit games from anywhere in the world; grid-based capture games sit under Displacement and Capture Games instead.
Mancala Games covers the mancala family of sowing games, such as Bao, Congkak, Kalah, Mancala, Oware and Sungka, in which players distribute counters around pits to capture an opponent's counters. Any sowing-and-capture pit game in this family belongs here regardless of where in the world it is played, while grid-based capture games are grouped instead under Displacement and Capture Games.