Exploration 29 | Journey in Place | Archaeology
Micro-Essay
Once I visited a south Georgia archaeological site, a native village now believed to have been the spot of a three-day bivouac of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.
What I saw, looking at the place, was a pine plantation growing up in a clearcut, next to a slough that was an old run of the Ocmulgee River.
Archaeologist Dennis Blanton of Fernba…
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