Archaeological identification of historically referenced sixteenth-century Native provinces: the example of Soto's Capachequi

Abstract

Archaeological confirmation of the location of the Native province of Capachequi is presented along with new details concerning its Late Mississippian character. Previously, the polity has been known mainly from descriptions left by chroniclers of Hernando de Soto's sixteenth-century entrada. The new information is the outcome of a decade-long archaeological project in the Chickasawhatchee Creek basin of southwestern Georgia. Projects of this kind advance the larger enterprise, initiated by Charles Hudson, of illuminating the social landscape and social history of the Indigenous Southeast during and following the Late Mississippian period.

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