The artifacts provide clues, but not a complete narrative.

Perhaps more discoveries will answer some questions.

Perhaps others will remain permanently unanswered.

That uncertainty is part of the attraction.

A researcher can stand on the site today and know that people were there in 1540.

But no modern observer can hear the conversations that took place.

No one can watch the Spanish soldiers enter the settlement.

No one can know exactly what a Native family thought when the first horse appeared.