African Burial Ground National Monument - Preservation (U.S. National Park Service)

Preservation is about deciding what's important, figuring out how to protect it,and passing along an appreciation for what was saved to the next generation.

Preservation is hands on.

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Archeological grave excavation

Burial 213 is of a woman between 45 and 55 years old. Her grave was disturbed by a round, brick-lined, 19th-century drain, which cut through her body from the pelvis to the lower legs.

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Silver pendant recovered with Burial 254

Burial 254 is of a child between 3 ½ and 5 ½ years old. A silver pendant was recovered during laboratory cleaning of the skeletal remains. It was found near the child’s mandible and may have been worn as an earring or strung around the neck. The original artifacts were reinterred with 419 ancestral remains in 2003; however, replicas of some of the original artifacts are displayed at the Visitor Center.