Category Archives: Biological Anthropology of Enslaved Barbadians

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

1989    (R. S. Corruccini, E. Brandon, 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 for … Continue reading →

1987    (R. S. Corruccini, A.C. Aufderheide, J. S.  Handler, 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 sites. In … Continue reading →

1986    (J. S. Handler, A. C. Aufderheide, 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 early West … Continue reading →

1985  (R. S. Corruccini, J. S. Handler, 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) which can … Continue reading →

1983    (J. S. Handler and R. S. Corruccini), Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis. Jl. 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 →

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

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 … Continue reading →