Hand-built pottery from Madame John’s.
This file appears in: Madame John’s Legacy: 1971 Excavations by Richard Shenkel and UNO
Hand-built pottery, presumably of Native American manufacture, was also collected in 1971. The circulation of indigenous wares like this in the Colonial era city has emerged as an important research theme in archaeological studies of New Orleans.
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…