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Archaeologists who spent weeks digging at a southern Indiana farm say the site has yielded a rich harvest of artifacts that shed light on life at an American Indian village about 900 years ago.

The pottery shards, flint arrow points and animal bones found during the dig at the farm outside Jeffersonville reveal information about the daily lives of people during the Mississippian period, roughly from 1000 to 1700.

Cheryl Ann Munson, an Indiana University archaeologist who is the dig's co-director, said researchers want to keep quiet the location of the unguarded site to protect it from potential trampling by curious amateurs.