*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Since New Orleans celebrated its tricentennial in 2018, archaeological research has continued in and around the city at a rapid pace, much of it triggered by federal involvement in construction and infrastructure projects. This session brings together a diverse collection of recent work on historical archaeology in southeastern Louisiana, where environmental precarity and a shared history of extractive economies, from the plantation to the petrochemical, links urban and rural landscapes.

Other Keywords
Historic • Historical Archaeology • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Zooarchaeology • Slavery • Monitoring • Cultural Resource Management • Urban Archaeology • Gis • Sensitivity Modeling

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • Delaware (State / Territory) • Georgia (State / Territory) • Mississippi (State / Territory) • Tennessee (State / Territory) • North Carolina (State / Territory) • Kentucky (State / Territory) • West Virginia (State / Territory) • Virginia (State / Territory)

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  • Archaeology for Many More: A Necessarily Broad Approach to the Archaeology of Evergreen Plantation (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jayur Mehta. Tara Skipton.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Evergreen Plantation Archaeological Survey (EPAS) focuses on understanding Black life during contexts of enslavement and post-Emancipation on Evergreen Plantation within Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. In Summer 2023, EPAS hosted its first interdisciplinary field school in which students not only learned...

  • Comparative Analysis of Food Production, Waste, and Socioeconomic Dynamics in Red Light Districts and Brothel Sites across Three Port Cities during the American Industrial Revolution (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Peyton Foti. Ryan Kennedy.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I present a comparative analysis of brothel sites and red-light districts in three major port cities during or around the period of the American Industrial Revolution. With a focus on Storyville in New Orleans, Louisiana, I will use Five Points in Manhattan, New York, and Hell's Half Acre...

  • Connected Then, Connected Now: The Archaeology of One Plantation within New Orleans’s Plantation Country (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Skipton.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Just upriver from New Orleans, Evergreen was just one of the several hundred plantations that flanked both sides of the lower Mississippi River. We have begun archaeological investigations into the lives of the enslaved at Evergreen, but it has become increasingly clear that this work extends beyond...

  • Crucibles in the Antebellum Assemblage and Imagination: Unique Finds from a French Quarter Archaeological Investigation (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Williams.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2017, the University of New Orleans located two privy shafts in a French Quarter house lot: one brick-lined privy shaft superimposed upon the other unlined privy pit. The contents of the two fill episodes were temporarily distinct, one from the early-nineteenth century and the other from the...

  • Foodways as Agentive Response to Disaster in Colonial New Orleans (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen Bouzon.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Disasters have plagued the City of New Orleans since its founding in 1718. The citizens of New Orleans have adapted and rebuilt in the wake of each catastrophe. Two fires destroyed significant parts of the colony in the eighteenth century. Little attention has been paid to the short or long-term effects...

  • The Impact of Fishing and Transportation Technologies on Nineteenth-Century Fisheries and Fish Supply in New Orleans, Louisiana (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Kennedy. Susan deFrance. Brittany Bingham. Eric Guiry. Brian Kemp.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines fish supply in late nineteenth-century New Orleans to understand how new fishing and transportation technologies transformed fish trade networks in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Previous research has demonstrated temporal and geographic shifts in the city’s fish supply, and we...

  • Life’s a Ditch: The Role of Ditches, Canals, and Waterways for Animal Waste in Historical New Orleans (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan deFrance.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since its founding, New Orleans has required infrastructure to collect and move water from its below-sea-level terrain. The urban development of the city required drainage ditches and canals that connected to bayous, the Mississippi River, or Lake Pontchartrain. Although there was trash collection in...

  • Navigating Neutrality and Bureaucracy among Property Owners and Descendant Communities as Government Representatives in Matters of Cemeteries and Human Remains in Louisiana's River Parishes (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Seidemann. Christine Halling.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Louisiana's River Parishes between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, alternately known as "the Industrial Corridor" or "Cancer Alley," has long been a place and landscape with clashing interests of industrial uses, economic development, environmental justice, and historic and archaeological preservation....

  • New Orleans City Archaeology Initiatives (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Godzinski. Elizabeth Williams.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2018, the City of New Orleans hired a full-time archaeologist as part of their $2 billion FEMA partnership for infrastructure work stemming from the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Monitoring projects have unearthed data concerning the construction of the city’s roadways, especially historic paving types...

  • Nineteenth-Century New Orleans in the Lower Mid-City Neighborhood (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James Eberwine. Erin Powers.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. TRC, on behalf of the Louisiana Office of Facility Planning and Control, recently completed the Section 106 consultation associated with the multiyear investigations of the new Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans. This new hospital project, which was a FEMA-funded recovery project resulting from...

  • Parasitism and Care in the Schoolyard: Archaeoparasitology of an Early Twentieth-Century School Latrine in New Orleans, USA (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Aida Barbera. Nathanael Heller. Emily Meaden Jeansonne.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. McDonough No. 5 School (1882-1930) was built in the historic Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans and was one of the first schools to educate black children. But as the neighborhood turned whiter and wealthier, the school was renovated, the black children turned away and relocated, and the newly...

  • Some Highlights from the Past Two Decades of Archaeological Research in New Orleans (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathanael Heller.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It has been nearly 19 years since Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed the city of New Orleans, and 14 years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill created immeasurable damage to the Louisiana coastline. While one would be hard pressed to find much good that came from those events, recovery efforts in the...

  • Urban Poverty in Historic New Orleans: Revisiting Magnolia/C. J. Peete (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kerry Boutte.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New Orleans experienced considerable social change between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with the economic participation of its residents varying widely according to race, gender, and immigrant status. In the two decades following Hurricane Katrina, federal aid disaster response and...