A University of North Florida professor and group of students excavated a site in Mayport on Thursday.
Dr. Keith Ashley and his students were at a Native American site that dated to about AD 1000.
The area around Wonderwood Drive and A1A was a Native American burial ground before it was redeveloped.
The artifacts will be taken back to campus, studied and entered into a state database.
Students found pottery, animal bones and large piles of shell garbage from as early as 1,000 years ago.
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