Monthly Archives: January 1994

Determining African Birth from Skeletal Remains: A Note on Tooth Mutilation

Posted on 1994 by Jerome Handler

1994    Determining African Birth from Skeletal Remains: A Note on Tooth Mutilation. Historical Archaeology 28: 113-19. Tooth mutilation existed in sub-Saharan Africa, and was found among slaves transported to the New World. A small number of mutilation cases have been … Continue reading →

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Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835

Posted on 1994 by Jerome Handler

1994    (J. R. Rickford and J. S. Handler), Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835. Jl. of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9: 221-55 On the evidence of textual attestations from 1676-1835, early Barbadian English is shown to have … Continue reading →

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