Ending at the Beginning: Excavation of the Louis Beaudoin Site

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2013 while conducting an archaeological survey for proposed interstate improvements, archaeologists with the Missouri Department of Transportation identified the remnants of an 18th-century French-style house. The identification of several post-in-earth wall trenches and a handful of period artifacts was monumental and changed the entire direction of the archaeological investigation. Over the subsequent years, five additional French homes were identified and excavated, producing an every-increasing amount of material and information. In 2018, during the final stages of the project and using lessons learned over the past five years, archaeologists returned to the Louis Beaudoin site to finish up where everything had started. A change in methods and approach not only produced a blizzard of late-18th and early-19th century artifacts but also identified the near-complete remains of the Beaudoin house. Prior conclusions concerning building construction and site use were set aside as new data demonstrated how the Beaudoin property differed from others in St. Louis and from comparable communities in Upper Louisiana.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39347.0