Archaeology students and volunteers working at two Arkansas City sites last month uncovered many valuable artifacts that will help archaeologists piece together the Etzanoa story, said Wichita State University archaeologist Don Blakeslee. He described Etzanoa — a five-mile settlement of 20,000 ancestral Wichita located along the banks of the lower Walnut River — as a “mega-site.” Mega-site is a relatively new term that archaeologists have been using for the past five years or so, he said. It is a new concept that is not fully understood yet. They are using it to describe really large settlements that don’t quite match terms traditionally used — “farmstead, village, town, or city,” for example.
Source: The Arkansas City Traveler
