Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Burials from the African Burial Ground

Bioarchaeological analysis of the burials from the African Burial Ground site in New York City showed that:

A) Nearly all of the burials were individuals > 55 years old; the earliest slaves were therefore treated better than archaeologists had assumed based on the known treatment of later slaves.
B) Half of the population died before reaching the age of 12, with another peak in mortality between the ages of 15 and 20.
C) The population had suffered from extreme malnutrition and rampant disease, but they were not forced to work very hard.
D) The skeletal remains were too poorly reserved to determine anything about demographic structure or pathology of the burial population.