IHB and Related Reports

Please use the following links to access the published reports of the Institute for Historical Biology and affiliated parties:

IHB Technical Reports

• Report No. 1, Institute for Historical Biology, 28 April 2003 (pdf)
• Report No. 2, Institute for Historical Biology, February 2004 (pdf)
• Report No. 3, Institute for Historical Biology, 21 June 2004 (pdf)
• Report No. 4, Institute for Historical Biology, 22 September 2005 (pdf)
• Report No. 5, Institute for Historical Biology, 12 May 2011 (pdf)
• Report No. 6, Institute for Historical Biology, 14 July 2011  (not for public distribution at this time)

New York African Burial Ground Reports

• Skeletal Biology Report, Final: Vol. 1 and 2 are available on the African Burial Ground National Monument website
• The IHB produced The New York African Burial Ground: Unearthing the African Presence in Colonial New York report.  The report has three volumes which are available to the public. Click the name of the report to access the pdf file.
  • Volume 1: The Skeletal Biology of the New York African Burial Ground, Part 1 (pdf) and Part 2 (pdf)
  • Volume 2: The Archaeology of the New York African Burial Ground,  Part 1 (pdf), Part 2 (pdf), andPart 3 (pdf)
  • Volume 3: Historical Perspectives of the New York African Burial Ground (pdf)

Reviews

• Review of the Virginia DHR Validation and Assessment Report on the Burial Ground for Negroes, Richmond VA (pdf)

Relevant Doctoral Dissertations

• Shannon Sheila Mahoney, W&M, Ph.D. (2013)
  • Community Building After Emancipation: An Anthropological Study of Charles' Corner, Virginia, 1862-1922
• Hollis Earl Pruitt, W&M, Ph.D. (2013)
  • No Longer Lost at Sea: Black Community Building In the Virginia Tidewater, 1865 to the post-1954 Era
• Grace S. R. Turner, W&M, Ph.D. (2013)
  • An Allegory for Life: An 18th century African-influenced cemetery landscape, Nassau, Bahamas