BOONE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Appalachian State University archaeologists have discovered an early Native American campsite right under a vegetable garden at the university’s Blackburn Vannoy Estate and Farm in Ashe County.

According to App State, the site was uncovered during a summer dig led by Dr. Alice Wright, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology.

Among the finds were stone tools, pottery pieces, a fire hearth, and a storage pit...all pointing to a place where people once gathered, cooked, and lived.

Wright said one of the most exciting artifacts was a sharpened quartz point, likely broken during a hunt and later reused as a tool for scraping animal hides.

The items reportedly date back as far as 8,000 years, covering the late Archaic to Woodland periods. Wright

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