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Split cane dice(Courtesy John Ives, Gabriel Yanicki)
In the thirteenth century A.D., people living in a cave near Utah’s Great Salt Lake spent their free time playing games. Excavations there, led by University of Alberta archaeologist John Ives, have unearthed some 1,300 gaming and gambling pieces, including dice made from split cane. Ives believes the avid gamers were Apache and Navajo ancestors who spent one or two generations in the cave during a long migration to the American Southwest
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