@article{bdad04f085ac4939a178a07ef6ba5662,
title = "House-yard burials of enslaved laborers in eighteenth-century Jamaica",
abstract = "Four burials were excavated from discrete house-yard compounds in an eighteenth century African Jamaican slave settlement at Seville plantation. Though only four in number, these individuals provide significant information on burial practices and physical conditions within a clearly defined African Jamaican community. The analysis of material remains illuminate living conditions and social relations within the African Jamaican community. Each individual was interred within a separate house-yard and with a unique set of artifacts that yield information about their unique identities and positions within the Seville community. Bioarchaeological assessments describe the osteological remains and detail findings concerning pathologies. To date, they are the only excavated individuals who represent the African Caribbean practice of house-yard burial.",
keywords = "African Jamaican enslaved community, Anemia, House-yard burial, Osteomyelitis",
author = "Armstrong, {Douglas V.} and Fleischman, {Mark L.}",
note = "Funding Information: We wish to thank Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Robert Corruccini, Joan Armstrong, DDS, Seymour Dushay, DDS, and Dr. Mark Levinsohn for their assistance with aspects of the osteological analysis. Magetometer surveys of the site were carried out by John Sexton and Harvey Hanson. The study of bioanthropology in the Caribbean is indebted to previous research in Barbados by Jerome Handler, Frederick Lange, and Robert Corruccini, and in Montserrat by Conrad Goodwin, Lydia Pulsipher, and David Watters. This study is part of a larger study of African Jamaican transformations at Seville plantation. More than 150 students from Syracuse University, along with students from the University of the West Indies at Mona and staff from the Jamaica National Heritage Trust have assisted with excavation at Seville. In particular we would like to thank JNHT archaeologists Dorrick Gray and Roderick Ebanks for their assistance both in the field and in the administration of research at Seville. Kofi Agorsah, Kenneth Kelly, and James Delle participated in the project at Seville and have provided continual support to our research effort. Thanks are due to Michael Blakey and Jerome Handler for their comments on earlier versions of this paper. The research at Seville has been generously supported by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (our cooperative partner in research), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Geographic Society, and the Wenner–Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.",
year = "2003",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1023/A:1023227303302",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "7",
pages = "33--65",
journal = "International Journal of Historical Archeology",
issn = "1092-7697",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "1",
}