Chapter 1. Introduction
Part of the Archaeology of African Burial Ground National Monument, New York project
Author(s): Jean Howson, Leonard G. Bianchi, Warren R. Perry
Year: 2006
Summary
This report is one of three disciplinary reports on the African Burial Ground Project. One
report focuses on the skeletal biological analysis of the remains recovered from the site
(Blakey and Rankin Hill 2004). A second report focuses on the documentary history,
from a Diasporic perspective, of Africans who lived and died in early New York
(Medford 2004). The present report, consisting of four volumes, presents the
archaeological research on the African Burial Ground. General background on the
African Burial Ground project is presented in the beginning of the skeletal biology
component report (Blakey and Rankin-Hill 2004). Here we provide background
information that is specifically relevant to the excavated site, the archaeological
fieldwork undertaken in 1991-92 (its planning, personnel, extent, duration, termination,
etc.), and the analysis and disposition of non-skeletal material from the excavation.
URL:http://www.africanburialground.gov/FinalReports/Archaeology/ABG_Ch01FEB.pdf
Cite this Record
Chapter 1. Introduction. Jean Howson, Leonard G. Bianchi, Warren R. Perry.
In New York African Burial Ground Archaeology Final Project Volume 1. Pp. 1-39. Washington D.C.: Howard University. 2006 (tDAR ID: 5377)
doi:10.6067/XCV8F47M4B
Keywords
Site Type
Cemetery
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Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation
Temporal Coverage
Calendar Date: 1640 to 1800