Photograph of the privy excavations at 936 St. Peter Street.

ID: 6429 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at University of New Orleans ~ Date: 2014

This file appears in: A Privy Full of Goat Skulls: The Archaeology of 936 St. Peter Street

Photograph of the privy excavations at 936 St. Peter Street.

This file appears in: A Privy Full of Goat Skulls: The Archaeology of 936 St. Peter Street

A Privy Full of Goat Skulls: The Archaeology of 936 St. Peter Street

By By Helen Bouzon, J. Ryan Kennedy, and D. Ryan Gray, edited by Elizabeth Williams

In 2014, the University of New Orleans was invited to conduct archaeological testing at 936 St. Peter Street while the property was undergoing renovations. Below the surface layer, archaeologists discovered the opening of a privy shaft. The privy…