Archaeology in New Orleans and Abroad
Contact: drgray1@uno.edu / 504-280-1072
By Elena Ricci It’s 8:00 am. A seemingly inconspicuous plot of dirt sits quietly in the French Quarter, awaiting the arrival of a group of students and their professor. Slowly, our group begins to trickle in, unloading gear and preparing for a day of work....
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Apologies for the slow updates; sometimes, after a day excavating out in the New Orleans summer heat, it’s hard to get much writing done! This is a quick update on the progress of the field school itself. Thanks to a relatively dry couple of weeks,...
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Our investigations at 810 Royal have entered a new phase, as the first session of the UNO summer field school has ended. The bulk of our work will shift to the lab for the next couple of weeks, though we will be tying up some...
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Now that our school semester is back in session, we are only able to proceed with field work sporadically. However, the processing of artifacts in our lab at UNO is making significant progress. There is simply a huge amount of material to wash and re-bag,...
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By Andrew Smith Every weekday starts the same: I wake up (solely by the promise of a CC’s medium-roast to come,) put on the archetypical archaeologist’ hat, try to find a parking spot close to the Quarter, and begin the walk that breaks the first...
digadminOur full field crew began excavations on Monday, June 1st, 2015. Getting started on an archaeological dig is always a slow process, but things have proceeded relatively quickly at 810 Royal. We established a grid over the site to help us keep track of the...
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Apologies for the slow updates; sometimes, after a day excavating out in the New Orleans summer heat, it’s hard to get much writing done! This is a quick update on the progress of the field school itself. Thanks to a relatively dry couple of weeks,...
anderseirik
While we expect to run into the occasional snakes when we’re out in the country, we were surprised to find this visitor at 810 Royal Street on an otherwise typical morning. She or he, a roughly five foot long water snake, was stuck in one...
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We’ve gone quite some time without a formal update here, although we’ve still been at work processing artifacts and, when time and weather permit, conducting follow-up excavations. This summer, on May 31 st , we began our official UNO Summer Field School course, with both...
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Most all of the fieldwork has been wrapped up on site at 810 Royal as of this point, though it is possible that we will return to the site if timing should allow for us to access the areas beneath the existing slabs. Even without...
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On Thursday, March 11, at 6:30 p.m., join archaeologist Ryan Gray and historian Erin Greenwald for a conversation on the state of colonial-era archaeology in New Orleans. Gray, who has worked on sites as varied as New Orleans’s first cemetery and the Storyville red-light district,......
20 February, 2021
The Ethel & Herman L. Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at UNO will have a new Associate Director beginning in the Spring semester of 2021. Dr. Ryan Gray, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and Richard Wallin Boebel Chair in Anthropology,......
26 January, 2021
Apologies for the slow updates; sometimes, after a day excavating out in the New Orleans summer heat, it’s hard to get much writing done! This is a quick update on the progress of the field school itself. Thanks to a relatively dry couple of weeks,......
10 June, 2020
News on Dr. Gray’s recent WWII MIA recovery in Europe. PBS NOVA documentary excerpt. Livestream of DPAA’s work on MIA recoveries. Podcast on research at the St. Peter Street Cemetery. The City Beneath the City: Archaeology of New Orleans...
18 March, 2020
The University of New Orleans will collaborate with the University of Innsbruck in Austria this summer to lead a joint effort to excavate the site of a World War II aircraft crash, in the hopes that the excavation will help the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency......
09 June, 2017
Most all of the fieldwork has been wrapped up on site at 810 Royal as of this point, though it is possible that we will return to the site if timing should allow for us to access the areas beneath the existing slabs. Even without......
10 November, 2016
We’ve gone quite some time without a formal update here, although we’ve still been at work processing artifacts and, when time and weather permit, conducting follow-up excavations. This summer, on May 31 st , we began our official UNO Summer Field School course, with both......
22 June, 2016
Now that our school semester is back in session, we are only able to proceed with field work sporadically. However, the processing of artifacts in our lab at UNO is making significant progress. There is simply a huge amount of material to wash and re-bag,......
01 October, 2015
While we expect to run into the occasional snakes when we’re out in the country, we were surprised to find this visitor at 810 Royal Street on an otherwise typical morning. She or he, a roughly five foot long water snake, was stuck in one......
08 August, 2015
By Andrew Smith Every weekday starts the same: I wake up (solely by the promise of a CC’s medium-roast to come,) put on the archetypical archaeologist’ hat, try to find a parking spot close to the Quarter, and begin the walk that breaks the first......
07 August, 2015