Jerome S. Handler

1980    (D. Gobert and J. S. Handler), Barbados in the Apprenticeship Period: The Report of a French Colonial Official. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 36: 108-28

The French government sent observers to the British West Indies to gather specific information on the consequences of emancipation and the creation of a nonslave labor force. A. Bernard, the Attorney General at Guadeloupe, visited Barbados in 1835, and in the following year submitted his report to the French Colonial and Naval Minister.

Barbados in the Apprenticeship Period: The Report of a French Colonial Official

1980    (F. W. Lange and J. S. Handler), The Archaeology of Mapp’s Cave: A Contribution to the Prehistory of Barbados. Jl. of theVirgin Islands Archaeological Society 9: 3-l7.

We report on the limited prehistoric data recovered from a cave in southern Barbados in the early 1970s, and place these data within the context of what is known about Barbadian prehistory.

1980    (R. S. Corruccini and J. S. Handler), Temporomandibular Joint Size Decrease in American Blacks: Evidence from Barbados. Jl. of Dental Research 59:1528

We assume that non-genetic, environmental factors have played the major role in TMJ size decrease; the most likely explanation is decreased chewing resistance (and growth stimulation) provided by the soft processed diets of modern urban individuals.