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An excavation unit measuring 1 x 2 meters. White shell is on the surface, and a brown shell layer with dark gray bands of clay is on the interior, about 10 centimeters below surface.
Begininng excavation into the upper Rangia Shell

Unfired Musket Ball

WPA workers assigned to the Statewide Archaeological Project begin excavating at a site where scientists expect to find trace of a prehistoric Indian culture, older than any yet discovered in the Mississippi Valley.

WPA workers of the Archaeological Project studying soil profile in an Indian mound near Lake Pontchartrain. From this site, archaeologists are unearthing evidence of an Indian culture which they believe is the oldest yet disc overed in the…

One whole whiteware ceramic teacup and one pieced together cup with burned and unburned sections

Dip-molded bottles, on the left is a Wood of Portobello, Scottland bottle base and on the right is Woolfall Manor

Two colorless glass tumbler fragments; one rim and one with a sunburst pattern base, displayed on black velvet with ten-centimeter scale bar.
Tumbler base and body

The Truelle or "Fleur de Trowel" logo was created for the Greater New Orleans Archaeology Program, housed at UNO during the 1990s.

Four toys recovered from this site: a chess piece, doll face fragment, and two doll leg pieces

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