Category Archives: Biological Anthropology of Enslaved Barbadians

Congenital Syphilis in the Past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados West Indies

Posted on 1992 by Jerome Handler

1992 (K. Jacobi, D. Cook, R. Corruccini, and  J. Handler) “Congenital Syphilis in the Past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados, West Indies.” AJPA 89: 145-58. Hutchinson’s incisors and Moon’s molars are specific lesions of congenital syphilis. The extensive but fragmentary … Continue reading →

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Inferring Fertility from Relative Mortality in Historically Controlled Cemetery Remains from Barbados

Posted on 1989 by Jerome Handler

1989 (R. S. Corruccini, E. Brandon, and J. S. Handler) “Inferring Fertility from Relative Mortality in Historically Controlled Cemetery Remains from Barbados.” American Antiquity 54: 609-14 Fertility (crude birth rate) was estimated from skeletal and corresponding historical relative mortality ratios … Continue reading →

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Patterning of Skeletal Lead Content in Barbados Slaves

Posted on 1987 by hopenorman

1987 (R. S. Corruccini, A. C. Aufderheide, J. S. Handler, and L. Wittmers) “Patterning of Skeletal Lead Content in Barbados Slaves.” Archaeometery 29: 233-39 Lead concentration patterns have proven useful in interpreting some aspects of slavery in colonial North American … Continue reading →

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Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical, and Biological Evidence

Posted on 1986 by Jerome Handler

1986 (J. S. Handler, A. C. Aufderheide, and R. S. Corruccini) “Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical, and Biological Evidence.” Social Science History 10: 399-425. Lead contact and lead poisoning have received scant attention in discussions of … Continue reading →

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Chronological Distribution of Enamel Hypoplasias and Weaning in a Caribbean Slave Population

Posted on 1985 by Jerome Handler

1985 (R. S. Corruccini, J. S. Handler, and K. Jacobi) “Chronological Distribution of Enamel Hypoplasias and Weaning in a Caribbean Slave Population.” Human Biology 57: 699-711. Dental enamel hypoplasia is a putative marker of childhood morbidity (nutritional or infectious stress) … Continue reading →

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Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis

Posted on 1983 by Jerome Handler

1983 (J. S. Handler and R. S. Corruccini) “Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14: 65-90 In this paper we utilize physical anthropological data, recovered archaeologically from a plantation slave cemetery in Barbados, … Continue reading →

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Osteology of a Slave Burial Population From Barbados, West lndies

Posted on 1982 by Jerome Handler

1982 (R. S. Corruccini, J. S. Handler, R. Mutaw, and F. W. Lange) “Osteology of a Slave Burial Population From Barbados, West lndies.” AJPA 59: 443-59 A unique seventeenth-nineteenth century slave cemetery population from Newton plantation, Barbados, allows examination of … Continue reading →

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Tooth Mutilation in the Caribbean: Evidence from a Slave Burial Population in Barbados

Posted on 1982 by Jerome Handler

1982 (J. S. Handler, R. S. Corruccini, and R. Mutaw) “Tooth Mutilation in the Caribbean: Evidence from a Slave Burial Population in Barbados.” Journal of Human Evolution 11: 297-313. Dental mutilation on slave burials excavated from a sugar plantation cemetery … Continue reading →

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Temporomandibular Joint Size Decrease in American Blacks: Evidence from Barbados

Posted on 1980 by Jerome Handler

1980 (R. S. Corruccini and J. S. Handler) “Temporomandibular Joint Size Decrease in American Blacks: Evidence from Barbados.” Journal of Dental Research 59: 1528. We assume that non-genetic, environmental factors have played the major role in TMJ size decrease; the … Continue reading →

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