Archaeology in New Orleans and Abroad
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 sweat...
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....
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...
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, we...