THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA

For a few days in 1540, those timelines overlapped.

Then the Spanish moved on.

But the consequences continued.

That is why the archaeological site is more than a location.

It is a collision point.

A place where two worlds entered the same physical space.

THE MYSTERY OF WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE THE HOUSES

Archaeology may never recover every detail of the encounter.