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Archaeologists Find Bound Bodies Of Enslaved Africans In Portuguese Trash Dump

Archaeologists Find Bound Bodies Of Enslaved Africans In Portuguese Trash Dump

Adult female skeleton found at Valle da Gafaria, Portugal, suggests a careless burial.

M.T. Santos Ferreira

In the early 15th century, Portuguese explorers like Henry the Navigator began sailing to Africa, bringing back both goods and enslaved people. A new archaeological study of more than 150 skeletons dumped in Lagos, Portugal, reveals that many of the enslaved Africans were not given…

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February 17 was a warm sunny day, a far cry from what we have come to expect for a winter day here in the Northeast, and I should have been out enjoying it. Instead, I spent most of the day indoors, within a darkened conference room on the University of Albany campus, observing the second annual Bioarchaeologists’ Northeast Regional Dialogue Conference, or B.A. NeRD as they cutely refer to it. I was there for the simple reason that I know the legacy of anthropology; I know that when the guns were put away . . .