The Native communities they encountered were forced to decide how to respond to an armed force unlike anything they had previously experienced.

At Capachequi, the Spanish accounts describe a substantial settlement.

The modern archaeological site associated with the community lies near Chickasawhatchee Creek in southwestern Georgia.

The archaeological evidence suggests a Native settlement with distinctive structures.

Among the most intriguing are circular or ring-shaped traces in the ground.

These features represent the surviving remains of houses whose walls and roofs have disappeared.

From above, they can resemble “doughnuts.”