Anhaica
Anhaica (also known as Iviahica, Yniahico, and pueblo of Apalache) was an Apalachee town and capital of the Apalachee Province, located near Myers Park in the present-day city of Tallahassee, Florida.
Prehistory
In the late prehistoric/protohistoric era the site became the capital of the Apalachee after the abandonment of the former capital, the Lake Jackson Mounds Site, in approximately 1500 CE. The fact that no platform mounds are found at Anhaica may indicate a political change. Either Anhiaca was not occupied long enough for the construction of mounds to begin or mounds were no longer being built. Also, disease could have been introduced from the Pánfilo de Narváez expedition through Apalachee in 1528 reducing population, changing village location and or mound-building activities.
Historic era
Anhaica's population was approximately 30,000, with the whole province having an estimated population of around 60,000.[citation needed] Anhaica had 250 buildings when Hernando de Soto set up camp there in October of 1539, forcing the Apalachee to abandon the village. De Soto left the town in March of 1540. About 1633, the Franciscan Order's Mission La Purificacion de Tama established a mission at the site of Anhaica.[citation needed]
Rediscovery
Anhaica was rediscovered in 1988 by Florida State archaeologist B. Calvin Jones on the grounds of the Gov. John W. Martin House in Tallahassee. Now known as the Martin Archaeological Site, (8LE853B), the site has produced examples of early sixteenth-century Spanish coins, olive jars, chain mail, and crossbow quarrels and is considered to have the best claim to be the winter encampment of the de Soto expedition.[1] It is now part of the DeSoto Site Historic State Park.
See also
References
- ^ Marrinan, Rochelle A.; White, Nancy Marie (Winter 2007). "Modeling Fort Walton Culture in northeast Florida" (PDF). Southeastern Archaeology. 26 (2).
- Obsolete De Soto Trail Theory - De Soto's winter encampment in Tallahassee
- Hann, John H. and McEwan, Bonnie G., The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1998.
- Tallahassee Trust
- Anhaica Net
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