THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
A modern farm can sit above a Native village.
A road can cross an ancient trail.
A modern town can occupy a landscape that once belonged to a completely different political system.
The surface changes.
The deeper history remains.
Archaeology gives us a way to read it.
FINAL REFLECTION
Five hundred years ago, the people of Capachequi could not have known that their village would one day become the subject of archaeological investigation.