Plan showing locations of previous excavations at Madame John’s relative to floorplan, with Shenkel’s excavations in yellow.

ID: 5792 ~ Source: Reproduced from Gray 2015. Courtesy of UNO Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

This file appears in: Madame John’s Legacy: 1971 Excavations by Richard Shenkel and UNO

This file appears in: Madame John’s Legacy: 1971 Excavations by Richard Shenkel and UNO

Madame John’s Legacy: 1971 Excavations by Richard Shenkel and UNO

In 1971, Madame John’s Legacy was one of the first historic period sites in urban New Orleans to be systematically investigated, when the subdiscipline of historical archaeology was still in its…