Shovel Tests

ID: 4815 ~ Source: University of New Orleans Department of Anthropology

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Crew members conduct shovel testing to determine where to establish an excavation unit.
This photo shows how overgrown and undeveloped Louis Armstrong Park was in the 1970s following the city's destruction of the 9 residential blocks that formerly occupied the site.

This file appears in: Congo Square/Armstrong Park

Congo Square/Armstrong Park

By Allison Robin & Charlotte Willcox, editor

During 1977 and 1978, the University of New Orleans conducted an archaeological project within what is now Armstrong Park. It focused on two areas, the Jazz Complex, a small area around what had been…