House-yard burials of enslaved laborers in eighteenth-century Jamaica

International Journal of Historical Archeology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-65

  Armstrong, Douglas V ^a   Fleischman, Mark L ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Jamaican enslaved community; Anemia; House yard burial; Osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL RELATIONS; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; SLAVE;

JAMAICA; SEVILLE;

EID: 0037985324     PISSN: 10927697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023227303302     Document Type: Article

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