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Can anyone help Ms. Smardz out - reply to mailto:[log in to unmask]
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From: Hugh W. Jarvis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 9:25 AM
Subject: Need help with Nova Scotia "African" burials? (fwd)
Can anyone help Karolyn out? Thanks, Hugh.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:38:52 -0400
From: "Smardz, Karolyn" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Need help with Nova Scotia "African" burials?
Do you know any archaeologists who do historic-period work in West Africa?
In Nova Scotia there is what appears to be a sacred site of some sort
constructed by the Black Loyalists in about 1785. It is a series of
egg-shaped mounds, about waist-high, built of rounded rocks with dirt packed
in between them, and ranging in size from about 7 feet long to about four
feet long. In other words, burial sized. They are out in the woods, and the
area is surrounded by a dry-laid stone wall that seems to be contemporary.
There is a black Christian cemetery not too far away, which is dated to the
first years of the Loyalist settlement, but I think this might be a pagan
contemporary burial ground, although the single excavated mound revealed no
bones.
Please contact Karolyn Smardz, University of Western Ontario, directly and
off this list at [log in to unmask]
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Stephen P. Austin (CESWF-EV-EC)
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