ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A national archaeology preservation group has bought two former Cayuga Indian village sites in New York’s Finger Lakes region as part of the organization’s ongoing effort to protect historical sites linked to the Iroquois.

Andy Stout, eastern regional director for the Archaeological Conservancy, told The Associated Press that the sites are on private land just a few miles apart amid farmland in the Finger Lakes community of Trumansburg, 45 miles southwest of Syracuse. The larger of the two properties contains evidence of a palisaded Cayuga village that occupied the site in the mid-16th century, and the other site also was home to a Cayuga village during the same period, he said.

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