Manuel: I want to welcome you 
here to Versailles State Park.
So there were a lot of Hoosiers who lived here.
A lot of farmers and their families.
A lot of people that called Indiana home.
Were there other people who live
here on this land?
Who were those people?
- Indians
 American Indians
Or Native Americans
And that's what we are going to 
dive into today.
Kind of all of those pieces of 
this land's history.
Early history, to Native 
American history.
And even Native American 
prehistory.
Draeger-Williams: It's not just
finding a pretty artifact, it's 
also what else might be there.
And, this is about nine 
thousand years old.
It's a real spear - early 
archaic.
These are all different kinds of
spear points too.
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Now we also have this tool to 
show you.
And it's a tool where, if you 
spin the middle rod.
And with a gentle down and up - 
down and up technique.
You get this middle rod of wood.
Rubbing against this piece of 
wood.
This method is called fire by 
friction, and it is also a fire 
starting tool.
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Nolan: So we're here at
Versailles State Park.
And we are looking for early uh
Hoosier homesteads.
These sites were laid out 
shortly after statehood uh in 
1816.
And so we got a grant from the
Division of Historic  Preservation and Archaeology
through the Historic Preservation Fund, to come out and study some of the sites.
And so we're doing shovel test 
excavations.
We dig about a uh  foot diameter hole in the ground and run all the dirt through the
screen...
and collect the 
artifacts.
And we map out all of the things
that we find.
And so we're finding anything from little tiny pieces
uh...dime size pieces of white ware...
uh ceramics...all the way up to complete stoneware jugs...
uh that were used for
preservation and storage.
Draeger-Williams: And remember that when you're on State property
it's illegal to collect and take home artifacts.
Make sure you leave it there and report it to park staff.
