THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
Native people possessed knowledge of the land.
Both mattered.
The encounter at Capachequi was therefore not simply a meeting between a technologically advanced society and an “undeveloped” one.
It was a meeting between societies with different technologies, political structures, and environments.
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL POWER OF A NAME
A place name can be frustrating for archaeologists.
A chronicler writes “Capachequi.”
Hundreds of years later, researchers must determine what that name referred to.
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