Native American pottery from post in ground structure.
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This structure was associated with an unusual array of artifacts, mostly preserved in a small trench along the wall of this structure that does not appear on historic maps, with large fragments of hand-built pottery, bone from both wild and domestic species, lithic artifacts, and even a copper crucifix, perhaps from a rosary. Some of the hand-built pottery was consistent with known Native American traditions; this fragment, for instance, is similar to known historic Choctaw types.
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Fur Traders, Indigenous Peoples, and the Violence of Urban Slavery
Very few well-preserved archaeological sites dating from the French Colonial era have been excavated in New Orleans. As most of these are located in areas that have been developed continuously since the early eighteenth century, many are disturbed…