Burial 5

ID: 5724 ~ Source: Courtesy of UNO Department of Anthropology and Sociology. ~ Creator: Photograph by Ryan Gray. ~ Date: 20 July 2011.

This file appears in: Archaeology of the St. Peter Street Cemetery

Recovered burials were identified at the LSU FACES lab to sex, ethnicity/ancestry, age at death, pathologies, and so on, through standard forensic methods. This individual, a child of African descent only 2-4 years old at time of death, probably was interred in the 1760s. Based on the demographics of the Louisiana colony at the time, he or she likely would have been enslaved in life.

This file appears in: Archaeology of the St. Peter Street Cemetery

Archaeology of the St. Peter Street Cemetery

By D. Ryan Gray

The St. Peter Street Cemetery served as the City of New Orleans’ primary burial ground through most of the Colonial era, from 1724 (and possibly earlier) until 1789, when it was officially replaced by…