Team tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 09:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path between Tallahassee and North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere.

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