Physicist Uses Radio Signals to Search Downtown Las Vegas for Signs of Ancient Pit Houses
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 14:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using radio signals instead of shovels, a physics faculty member from Ithaca College, along with local archeologists, has found evidence of additional 1,300-year-old pit houses five miles from the Las Vegas Strip. This recent find promises to give archaeologists new insights into how people who once lived in the Southwest transitioned from a foraging society to a sedentary one.