THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
Can environmental evidence reveal what the landscape looked like in 1540?
Each answer may create another question.
That is normal.
Archaeology advances through accumulated evidence.
THE SITE AS A LABORATORY
Blanton has described the property as an unusually valuable laboratory for reconstructing the encounter.
That description makes sense.
The site offers something rare: the opportunity to study a documented historical event through archaeological evidence.