They could not preserve every family story.

They could not record the thoughts of the people who watched strangers enter their homeland.

They could not show exactly where every soldier stood.

Archaeology can sometimes recover what written history leaves behind.

At a Native village in southern Georgia, researchers have now found an extraordinary collection of evidence: Spanish-made metal objects, weapon fragments, chains, and most dramatically, the pommel of a sixteenth-century Spanish sword.

The evidence points toward a place identified in the chronicles as Capachequi.