Archaeology does not simply “prove the Spanish right.”

Instead, it gives historians another source.

The most convincing history emerges when archaeological evidence, documentary evidence, environmental evidence, and Indigenous perspectives are considered together.

The Capachequi discovery is valuable precisely because it allows those sources to be compared.

THE SEARCH WILL CONTINUE

The sword pommel is not the end of the investigation.

It is the beginning of a much more detailed phase.

Researchers can now ask new questions.