6. The African Burial Ground: Long-term Global Assessment
Archaeology of Urban Bondage - The New York African Burial Ground - Augustin F.C. Holl
Augustin F.C. Holl [+]
Xiamen University, China
Augustin F.C. Holl is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Africa Research Center, School of Sociology and Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Xiamen University, China.
Description
Chapter 6 - The African Burial Ground: A Global Assessment sums up the evidence discussed in the previous chapters 3 to 5 and proceeds forward to a comparative analysis. The variables relied on for this comparative discussion include: 1) the number of burials per chronological sequence; 2) the demographic profiles of the deceased populations; 3) the distribution of burials furniture; and finally, 4) health, pathologies and deceases.